TN Redline Text Feature
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The Tennessee REDLINE today unveiled its new text message capability for people seeking a referral to addiction...
Vanderbilt Starts Addiction Clinic So Overdose Patients Have Somewhere To Go after the ER
Nashville's largest hospital is launching a part-time addiction clinic, so overdose victims have somewhere close to go after the...
Recovery Programs Evolve to Treat the Whole Person
Kristie Wolbers was the only nursing student in her graduating class to go into behavioral health. "My patients who had substance use...
Tennessee Lawmaker Files Bill to Expand Drug Testing of Welfare Recipients
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — A Tennessee lawmaker wants to expand the drug testing of welfare recipients. Rep. Bruce Griffey (R-Paris) has...
Clients, Families Praise Shuttered Women's Center
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — As anger builds against the operator of a private women's treatment center that abruptly closed last week in...
Seymour Rehab Facility Abruptly Closes, Leaving Patients and Staffers in the Lurch
SEYMOUR, Tenn. (WATE) - An East Tennessee rehab facility abruptly closing its doors this week, leaving both employees and patients in the...
Growing Crops, Changing Lives
Progress at the Renovatus farm means more than crops of spring vegetables. On “Farm Day” last Saturday, founder Pete Higgs was showing...
Vanderbilt Using Virtual Reality to Fight Opioids
Nashville Tennessean USA TODAY NETWORK - TENNESSEE Video games were once Noah Robinson’s only way to cope. When he couldn’t bear the...
Nashville Company Battling Opioid Addictions Raises $8 Million
180 Health Partners, a Nashville-based behavioral health company battling the opioid epidemic, has raised $8 million to fund its...
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...