David Parker, founder and CEO of Parker Academy, talks about removing financial barriers to access safer health care and ...

Heart disease gets long-term management. Diabetes gets ongoing care. Substance use disorder is a chronic condition, too, so ...

The city's department of public health is looking to address root causes that may include untreated addiction, homelessness and mental illness. Most of the deaths involve fentanyl, a powerful ...

“The only way to tackle this epidemic is through even more proactively and urgently tackling the root cause, which is untreated or insufficiently treated addiction, mental illness, homelessness ...

The San Francisco Department of Public Health is aiming to treat the underlying cause of drug addiction to mitigate the city’s overdose deaths, which averaged at least two people dying every day ...

"There are effective prevention programmes, it makes sense to invest in treatment for people struggling with drug addiction ... tackle the problem at its root. We should, for example, offer ...

Second, SB3 would empower the black market for synthetic drugs without addressing the root causes of addiction. The bill would incentivize traffickers to produce more potent and lethal substances ...

By focusing on the unique needs, challenges, and circumstances of each individual, personalized treatment helps address the root causes of addiction, improves the chances of recovery, and enhances ...

Tsai says to be effective the city must get to "the root cause, which is untreated or insufficiently treated addiction, mental illness, homelessness and doing everything we possibly can." (Alise ...

Despite the huge impact, the root causes of alcohol addiction in the brain are still being uncovered. Now, scientists from the University of Warwick have made a breakthrough in understanding what ...