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The Story: Eugene, Oregon, announced an innovative policy thirty years ago that gained unusual attention last year. The year 2020 was a time of highly...

More than half of the local authorities in England have cut their budgets for alcohol and drug treatment, even though admissions to hospital for problems related to addiction are soaring, say MPs. “Every child of an alcoholic comes to learn the brutal hard way that we can’t change things for our parents, but we can change things for our children,” said Byrne. We’re spending money dealing with A&E admissions when we should be trying to tackle the addiction that lands people in hospital in the first place.” The FoI data shows that alcohol-related hospital admissions are up by 13%, with 39,000 more last year than in 2009, while alcohol treatment budgets have been cut by 4%. The average budget cut for alcohol and drug treatment services last year was £155,000, but some were much higher. The largest absolute cut was by Birmingham city council at £3,846,000, which is 19% of its budget. Islington cut the largest proportion of its budget, at 34%, amounting to £2,431,800. Local authorities plan to cut addiction treatment services by a further 2% next year. Ninety-three per cent of local authorities say that addiction treatment budgets will stand still or fall next year. The only positive news from the all-party parliamentary group is that 67% of local authorities now say they have services in place to support the children of alcoholics, up from 50% last year and less than 25% in 2015. I hope ministers will listen to the patients and to the children of alcoholics and address this funding crisis immediately.” A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “All children deserve a stable and happy place to call home and it’s heartbreaking that hundreds of thousands of children growing up with alcohol-addicted parents in this country are robbed of this.

 The Story: A recent poll by Pan Atlantic Research shows Janet Mills (D), Maine's Attorney General, leading in the campaign to elect that state's next...

 The Story: A recent poll by Pan Atlantic Research shows Janet Mills (D), Maine's Attorney General, leading in the campaign to elect that state's next...

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Narcan reverses the effects of a narcotic overdose. Dr. Daniel Bober sheds light on addiction in America. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The…

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Author Eric Bolling lost his 19-year-old son due to an accidental drug overdose that included opioids. He joins Morning Joe with Dr. Dave Campbell to discuss the White House opioid summit and the WH response to the crisis. » Subscribe…

One painful aspect of the public debates over the opioid-addiction crisis is how much they mirror the arguments that arise from personal addiction crises. "Tough love" -- i.e., cutting off all support for my brother so he could hit rock bottom and then start over, had the best chance of success. But you know what else would happen if we legalized heroin and opioids? More people would use heroin and opioids. And the more people who use such addictive drugs, the more addicts you get. Doctors prescribed more opioids, and government subsidies made them more affordable. When you increase supply, lower costs and reduce stigma, you increase use. The overdose crisis is largely driven by the fact that once addicted to legal opioids, people seek out illegal ones -- heroin, for example -- to fend off the agony of withdrawal once they can't get, or afford, any more pills. Last year, 64,000 Americans died from overdoses. But what people forget is that drug addiction makes people irrational.