Opioid Addiction

The continuing opioid crisis across the nation is prompting calls for action and change. In Vermont, new rules outlining how doctors prescribe opioids to…

Nashua’s Health Department wants you to stop using the word “addict.” “We need to talk about substance use disorder like the disease that it is,” health...

It was a blow to those dealing with the opiate abuse crisis when Maple Leaf Treatment Center in Underhill announced that it was closing temporarily in…

Emotional abuse during childhood is linked to misuse of opioids in adulthood, according to a recent University of Vermont study.The researchers…

In less than eight hours last June, Yale New Haven’s emergency department treated 12 patients who had overdosed on opioids. Three died; nine were saved.

People suffering from opioid addiction generally face a lot of challenges as they begin their recovery. But in the Upper Valley, one business owner is…

Officials in Burlington announced new measures Thursday that are part of the city’s efforts to gather data that will help inform their work to fight…

A record number of Vermonters died last year from opioid overdoses.Preliminary numbers released by the the Vermont Department of Health show 105 people…

It was such a major concern in 2014 that then-Governor Peter Shumlin devoted his entire State of the State address to the opiate addiction crisis. As a…

Vermont has already invested significant time and money in combating the opioid addiction, from special drug courts to laws regulating prescription…