Lee, Dean Talk Medical Marijuana, Raising the Gas Tax — and Health Care Once Again
Tennessee’s candidates for governor took the stage Friday night for the last time before Election Day, finding common ground on issues...
2 Charged in Connection to Man’s Overdose Death
Knoxville News Sentinel USA TODAY NETWORK - TENNESSEE Six months after a 34-year-old man overdosed on pain pills and died in...
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....
Opioids Remain A Public Safety Threat
Several years ago, we saw early flares from the opioid crisis in Upper East Tennessee, where an alarming number of babies were being born...
State’s Opioid Plan Means More Citizens out of Work - Like Me
They say TN Together – the state’s plan to address the opioid crisis – is helping people. But what they fail to mention is that the...
How the DEA Plans to Tackle Opioid Abuse, Crime in Knoxville
Knoxville News Sentinel USA TODAY NETWORK - TENNESSEE Knoxville will be the 13th city to pilot a program designed to attack drug abuse...
Blackburn Says She’s ‘Open’ to Legalizing Medical Marijuana
Nashville Tennessean USA TODAY NETWORK - TENNESSEE Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn says she is “open” to legalizing medical...
Juuling Trend Grows among Kids; FDA Has Had Enough
Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle USA TODAY NETWORK - TENNESSEE When e-cigarettes first appeared on the market, Montgomery County Health...
Report on Area Drug Deaths Shows South, North Knoxville Hardest Hit
If you die of a drug overdose in Knox or Anderson County, where are you most likely to be? In a home — yours, or someone else's....
Blühen Botanicals Enters Tenn. Hemp Industry
Joe Fox was looking for reasons to say no to hemp. Longtime friend and “green thumb” Erich Maelzer had introduced the idea of...