University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing Professor Susanne Fogger, DNP, CRNP, CARN-AP, PMHNP-BC, FAANP, has co-edited an important resource for addictions and psychiatric mental health ...

Skilled nursing facilities in Rhode Island got the attention of Americans with Disabilities Act advocates when they refused to admit people coming out of hospitals after treatment for opioid addiction ...

The first time I saw Maya (not her real name) huddled under blankets in a hospital bed in 2013, she had been to dozens of inpatient detox programs and residential treatment centers since she had begun ...

Zhanette Coffee, Ph.D., MSN, APRN, spent years working as an advanced practice nurse with certifications in family practice and addictions nursing and saw firsthand the challenges faced not only by ...

Korrine Stephani, the fifth certified addiction RN in North Dakota, will work with people experiencing homelessness, substance abuse disorder and addiction Korrine Stephani, the first person in Grand ...

Alyssa Hamel remembers how holistic and integrated the simulations were. While training under the School of Nursing’s ongoing Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) grant, Hamel ...

The Biden administration will expand the use of medication to treat substance use disorders to include pregnant women; oversight of the nation’s poorest-performing nursing homes will be tightened; ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Two skilled nursing facilities in North Carolina reached a settlement this month that bars them from discriminating against people with a ...

Georgia nurses who have struggled with – and even overcome – addiction want to see the state adopt a less punitive approach ...

The Biden administration's decision to end the COVID-19 public health emergency in May will institute sweeping changes across the health care system that go far beyond many people having to pay more ...