heroin and prescription opioid abuse News

Feds Grant Nearly $11M to Indiana to Fight Heroin, Opioid Abuse

A federal agency has awarded Indiana nearly $11 million to fight the state’s opioid abuse crisis. The state’s funding from the Health and Human Services is among $485 million the agency recently awarded to all 50 states and several U.S. …

N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Calls to Expand Help for Heroin Addiction

Limited opioid prescriptions, greater funding for addiction treatment and more support for people trying to stay clean: those are some of the proposals for attacking New York’s heroin and opioid problem released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on June 9. The …