New White House drug abuse strategy floats wastewater testing, AI, more treatment

The Trump administration is proposing wastewater testing to try to ferret out data on illegal drug use in real time, ...
The New York Times

It Was a Promising Addiction Treatment. Many Patients Never Got It.

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...
CNN

They needed treatment for drug addiction. The company they turned to may have used them to commit fraud

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Texas has low drug use rates but ranks worst for treatment access, study finds

See where Texas ranked in WalletHub's 2026 drug use study and which states had the highest and lowest rates.