Mother Fights to Make Lockable Rx Bottles the New Norm
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - One mother is making it her mission to make it harder for teens to pilfer prescription drugs. Seventy-percent of...
Helen Ross McNabb Center Opens Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center
The Helen Ross McNabb Center cut the ribbon on its Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center on Friday. The treatment center will serve as an...
Sheriff Jones: Death Penalty For Drug Dealers 'Might Not be a Bad Idea'
In the past week, President Donald Trump has proposed combating the opioid epidemic by giving drug dealers the death penalty. "You kill...
Chattanooga CARES Announces Syringe Exchange Program
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The group Chattanooga CARES says it is about to begin a program designed to help stem the spread of infectious...
Us Just Killing Ourselves
In the opening pages of Weedeater, the tough-as-nails teenager who came of age in Robert Gipe’s celebrated first novel, Trampoline, has...
Tennessee’s Frontline in the Fight Against Opioids is the Family Medicine Cabinet
On May 14, 2016, I joined a club I hope you’re never in. It’s one that’s getting bigger by the day. That was when I lost my daughter Katy...
City Council Approves Funding for Program to Help Curb Prostitution
The Knoxville City Council has decided to to bring back a program designed to curb prostitution and broaden access to mental health and...
Opinion | Marsha Blackburn Cares more about Drug Sellers than Tennesseans Torn by Opioid Crisis
Opioid abuse is costing each and every Tennessean approximately $4,793 a year, according to a study by the American Enterprise Institute....
Look Inside: Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center Set to Begin Seeing Patients
Knox County is making a bet that treatment is more valuable than incarceration. "We’re taking some risks here. We’re taking some chances...
Shattering The Myth Of The ‘Addicted Baby’
Can a baby be born addicted to opiates or any other drug? The other day I caught the headline about a class-action against 20...