Trump Sends $25M to Fight Addiction in Tennessee
Funds aim to help with opioid fight Tennessee will receive more than $25 million in federal funding to combat the opioid crisis, which...
White House Committed to Ending Rural Drug Epidemic
In small towns like Jacksboro, big cities like Knoxville and countless places in between, our nation is in the midst of an unprecedented...
Scanner Will Help Start Hep C Treatment Faster
USDA grant will help support patients An $80,000 piece of equipment could affect how quickly thousands of Kentucky and Tennessee patients...
Next Step: Why These Knoxville Sisters 'Don't Give Up' on Drug Users
KNOXVILLE — When Addie Arbach pulls her car up to South Knoxville’s Sam Duff Memorial Park and starts unloading food and clothing and...
Overdose Deaths Seem to Slip in 2018
NEW YORK – U.S. overdose deaths last year likely fell for the first time in nearly three decades, preliminary statistics suggest. The...
All4Knox Summit Aims for a Community Wide Solution to the Opioid Crisis
Heather Starbuck knew of her fiancé’s past struggles with addiction, but in the two years they’d been together, she’d never seen them. So...
51 Pills a Day: Judge Orders Rethinking of Tennessee Nurse’s Trial
A judge has ordered the Tennessee Board of Nursing to rethink its decision to let a nurse practitioner who wrote 'colossal' opioid...
Some Providers Named in State’s Opana Suit Are Still Practicing
Between 2007-2014, Knoxville providers prescribed 916,513 more Opana Extended Release tablets than in all of New York City, Los Angeles...
Lawsuit: Red Flags Were Ignored
Sales reps pushing painkiller Opana looked other way amid signs of fraud and drug dealing, AG says The line at Dr. Abdelrahman Mohamed’s...
It’s Time We Got Serious About Hep C
One of the terrible consequences of Tennessee’s opioid crisis is the rise in hepatitis C infections. Approximately 70,000 of our fellow...
