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First Opinion Torie Bosch

Buprenorphine, autism diagnoses, and long Covid: the most-read First Opinion essays of 2023

Health Lev Facher

Fights over methadone, harm reduction, and more: 3 addiction stories to watch in 2024

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We wish we’d written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2023

First Opinion Cara Poland

The U.S. must raise federal alcohol taxes to address the alarming rise in alcohol use

First Opinion Shannon Smith-Bernardin

Sobering centers offer a safe place to recover from intoxication. Every community should have one

Morning Rounds Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: Morning Rounds: Can you take GLP-1 drugs during pregnancy?

Health Lev Facher

Methadone clinics spar with addiction doctors on bill that would widen access

Exclusive Lev Facher and Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Sweeping bill to fight opioid addiction will be considered by Senate health committee

Politics Associated Press

STAT Plus: Supreme Court wrestles with OxyContin maker’s bankruptcy deal

First Opinion Thomas Farley

STAT Plus: Big Weed today is a whole lot like Big Tobacco in the 1950s

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: U.S. Supreme Court to review controversial Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement

Health Annalisa Merelli

Overdose deaths during pregnancy spiked over the past few years, study says

Letters to the editor Torie Bosch

What STAT readers think about premed requirements, too much health care, harm reduction, and more

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: A digital pill shows early promise in detecting opioid overdose, sleep apnea

Health Lev Facher

How the Bad River Tribe flipped the script on the Native American opioid crisis

Politics Lev Facher

STAT Plus: To fight bias against people with addiction, White House calls for ‘recovery-friendly’ workplaces

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang and Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Republicans divided over financial crisis in Medicare

First Opinion Alexandra Plante

There’s a real risk that harm reduction could be a fad

Politics Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Senate bill would permanently extend Covid-era rules on telehealth addiction treatment

First Opinion Ed Bisch

I lost my son to OxyContin. ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ is my Sackler revenge fantasy

Politics John Wilkerson and Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Senate committee plans Nov. 8 vote on wide-ranging health care package

Health Lev Facher

The fight for control of methadone, addiction treatment’s ‘miracle molecule’

Health Matt Stout — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Federal bill would keep addiction medication from triggering a child abuse investigation

Health Lev Facher

FDA calls for treatments for meth and cocaine addiction

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Did you have Obamacare on your GOP debate bingo card?

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Pear’s shadow effect: Data from a Medicaid digital health experiment does the policy rounds

First Opinion Jacqueline Seitz

STAT Plus: Where are HHS and the FTC on online privacy for people with substance use disorder?

Health Rachel Wisniewski

Not yet free from heroin’s grip, an ‘honest, funny man’ finds his way off the streets

Health Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Republicans say they’ll stop fentanyl at the border. But what are their plans for treatment?