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The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act bill was passed in a 92-2 vote by the Senate Wednesday, The New York Times reported. Although bipartisan disagreements over funding temporarily stalled ...

President Barack Obama signed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act bill into law Friday by, according to a Reuters report. 2. Under the new law, the federal government and every state must ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For years, our 4 Investigates team has focused on our state’s CARA program. It’s the comprehensive addiction and recovery act, developed to help families with drug addiction. Now, ...

What We’re Reading, July 14, 2016: Inaccurate provider directories in California health plans; atehnahealth survey identifies low physician engagement; and opioid addiction bill will soon be law.

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will receive $11.4 million in federal funding over the next three years to help prevent and treat opioid addiction. The state’s Congressional leaders announced Thursday that ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Not long ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s history of heroin addiction alone would likely have disqualified him from ...

As the opioid epidemic continues to cause suffering for millions of Americans, the United States government is responding in many different ways. In 2016, lawmakers passed the Comprehensive Addiction ...