SB 1060
BILL SUMMARY ON APRIL 17, 2019, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 656, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill....
Issues with Methadone and Suboxone Treatment in Rural Tennessee, Plus a Comparison of These Two Opio
There are several issues that rural Tennesseans with opioid use disorder like me face in securing medication-assisted treatment program...
Tennessee’s Opioid Overdose Deaths at All-Time High
As we watch our country reckon with the results of the opioid epidemic, Tennesseans don’t have to look far to see the grave effects on...
TennCare to Cover Longer-Term Opioid Addiction Treatment
Knoxville News Sentinel USA TODAY NETWORK - TENNESSEE To Ed Ohlinger, Suboxone, methadone and other medications are important for...
The Feds Are Raiding the Offices of Doctors Who Prescribe Addiction Medication
Opioid overdose is now responsible for one in five deaths among young adults—an astonishing proportion, according to new data from the...
Can Medication Treat Opioid Addiction?
I would like to bring to your attention difficulties I see in the future of persons addicted to opioids. For more than 20 years I have...
The Opioid Crisis Outgrows Policies on Treatment
The opioid epidemic has had a staggering impact in Tennessee: countless loved ones gone, higher health care costs, more drug-related...
Doctors Say '30 Minutes' Suboxone Billboard Increases Addiction Medicine Stigma, Call for Re
Tennessee Recovery Coalition President Paul Trivette could barely believe his eyes when he drove through Bristol earlier this week and...
Citizens to Maintain Gray Plan Meeting to Discuss Methadone Clinic Site Concerns
A Washington County commissioner said Friday that he and many other Gray residents feel like they have been blindsided by a punch. Mark...
Could Methadone be an Effective Treatment for Opioid Addiction in Johnson City?
When Zac Talbott went to methadone treatment for the first time, he said he didn’t go for all the right reasons. “I wasn’t originally...