Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. and Deputy Chief Bryan Warner are proposing a major expansion of the tribe’s ...

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr and Deputy Chief Bryan Warner are proposing a large expansion to the tribe's ...

The Cherokee Nation is investing $23 million into addiction treatment centers, the tribe announced last week. The investment ...

Opioid overdoses continue to take a devastating toll across the United States. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

About 184 million opioid painkillers were distributed across the Cherokee Nation’s 14 counties in northeast Oklahoma from 2015 through 2016, according to data compiled by the Oklahoma Bureau of ...

Arkansas' public health approach to reducing opioid deaths was ranked best in the nation in a report released last week, but the publication also found shortcomings in the state's overdose prevention ...

Dollars for deaths After record spikes during the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation is finally seeing a meaningful drop in overdose deaths. Tennessee logged a projected 32% decrease last year, but the ...

This is the first of three parts in a series by Adams Publishing Group newspapers about the nation's ongoing and evolving opioid crisis. Today: Part 1 addresses the magnitude of the problem across the ...

Well-intentioned programs can be outgrown by progress in others. That’s a good thing—if we acknowledge shortcomings and move forward. The creation of prescription drug management programs (PDMPs) was ...

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