Knoxville Woman Arrested for Furnishing House Where Overdose Occurred
A Knoxville woman remained in jail Friday on charges stemming from a possible overdose death that occurred at her home in November,...
Tenn. Legislators Talk Tax Cuts in Light of $2B Cash Surplus
NASHVILLE – Based on State Funding Board projections, the Tennessee General Assembly will have close to $2 billion in extra money to...
Retired Nurse Couldn’t Save Own Daughter from Opioids
TULLAHOMA — Her daughter had nine broken ribs and had a blood clot that required surgery to remove it. So, when Judy Jenkins called about...
Tennessee Drug Courts Get Federal Grants
Two Tennessee drug courts were among those to get three-year grants from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...
UT Center for Addiction Sciences Named Center of Excellence
The University of Tennessee College of Medicine's Center for Addiction Science has been named a Center of Excellence in Addiction...
1,451 Tennesseans Die of Drug Overdoses in 2015
Last year, 1,451 people died of drug overdoses in Tennessee -- the highest annual number of overdose deaths in state history. The new...
BCBS, UT to Provide Opioid Antidote, Training to Law Enforcement
How many of the 1,263 Tennesseans who died of opioid overdoses in 2014 could have been saved with an opioid antidote? There’s no way to...
Motion: More Overdose Charges Loom in Pill-Mill Case
A grandmother accused of heading up a $17.5 million pill-mill operation in East Tennessee has received two bits of bad news in the past...
McNabb Center Opens Free Treatment Facility for Veterans, Military
About a quarter of veterans have post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety or chemical dependency, estimates the U.S....
Mothers, others Share Stories for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Month
From the waist up, Meghan Denney was cool and collected, telling the story of how, with help, she saved her own life. Behind the lectern...