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2026

New data shows it's particularly hard to find a primary care doctor in Portland

Willamette Week ↗ open
Portland's primary care clinics are less likely to accept new Medicare patients: Study

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2025

Insights about the opioid crisis

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Medicaid reimbursement boosts access to opioid treatment at new facilities

YSPH News ↗ open

2024

Medications for opioid use disorder offered at less than half of US psychiatric hospitals

Clinical Advisor ↗ open
The cancer moonshot goes to space

Politico ↗ open
A look at substance use and mental health treatment facilities across the U.S.

Kaiser Family Foundation ↗ open
Families hit with high costs, waitlists for youth rehab in Oregon and nationwide

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Addiction treatment for teens in crisis is often hard to find

US News and World Report ↗ open
Residential addiction treatment for adolescents is scarce and expensive

NIH News Release ↗ open
Uneven access and high costs: The state of residential addiction treatment for adolescents

Boston Medical Center HealthCity ↗ open
Residential addiction treatment for U.S. teens is scarce and expensive, OHSU-led study finds

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2023

Medicaid opiod addcition treatment

New York Times ↗ open
Federal embeds take on homelessness

Politico ↗ open
Teens with addiction are often left to detox without medication

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Teens in residential drug rehabs often don't get the most effective opioid treatment

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Few rehab centers for addicted teens offer recommended medicine, US study finds

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Few rehab centers for addicted teens offer recommended medicine US study finds

US News and World Report ↗ open
Only 1 in 4 adolescent treatment facilities offer buprenorphine for opioid use disorder

NIH News Release ↗ open
Lack of buprenorphine access for adolescents in residential facilities

NIH Research Matters ↗ open
OHSU study shows most teen residential treatment facilities don't offer key addiction medication

Oregon Public Broadcasting ↗ open

2022

Opioid addiction doctors want telehealth rules to stay relaxed

The Verge ↗ open
Most docs want telehealth for opioid abuse treatment to stick around

US News and World Report ↗ open
988 suicide lifeline in place, but access to care falls short

Medscape ↗ open
Suicide prevention a new number old problems

Behavioral Healthcare Executive ↗ open

2021

As addiction deaths surge, profit-driven rehab industry faces 'severe ethical crisis'

NPR: Morning Edition ↗ open
Auditing The Admission Practices For Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Health Affairs Podcast: A Health Podyssey ↗ open
Secret addiction treatment shoppers log hard sell tactics at some residential programs

NPR (WBUR) ↗ open
BHE podcast, episode 017 – Tamara Beetham, Yale university PhD student

Behavioral Healthcare Executive Podcast ↗ open
America's response to addiction relies on fixing this website

CNN News ↗ open
From sober mom squads to anti-anxiety workbooks: Do new AA alternatives work?

The Guardian ↗ open
Teens in residential drug rehabs often don't get the most effective opioid treatment

NBC News ↗ open
Addiction policy treatment opioid

New York Times ↗ open
We need more meds, not beds, to help people recovering from addiction

Scientific American ↗ open

2020

Most residential addiction treatment programs don’t offer live-saving medication

NPR (WBUR) ↗ open
Exclusives

MedPage Today Feature Story ↗ open
Treatment programs lack standard care opioid addiction

Axios ↗ open
The opioid epidemic is surging among Black people because of unequal access to treatment

Scientific American ↗ open
Federal embeds take on homelessness

Politico ↗ open
We have treatments for opioid addiction that work. So why is the problem getting worse?

Vox ↗ open
$11M for North Carolina work-based rehab raises concerns

KFF Health News ↗ open
A $30 million gift to build an addiction treatment center. Then staffers had to run it.

KFF Health News ↗ open
Addiction harm reduction

New York Times ↗ open
Faith healing should not be mainstream treatment for addiction

New York Times ↗ open
We need more meds, not beds, to help people recovering from addiction

Scientific American ↗ open

2019

Study: Heroin users in Ohio face barriers to addiction treatment

NPR (WOSU): Morning Edition ↗ open
Researchers pose as heroin users to find treatment gaps

Associated Press ↗ open
Secret shopper hospital

New York Times ↗ open
In states with most overdose deaths, poor patients struggle to find treatment

Reuters ↗ open
Patients WHO want to use Suboxone for addiction can have trouble getting it, study finds

NPR (WBUR) ↗ open
Access to office-based buprenorphine treatment in areas with high rates of opioid-related mortality: An audit study

RAND Policy Brief ↗ open
Many buprenorphine prescribers not offering new appointments

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America's response to addiction relies on fixing this website

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