Medicaid enrollees with substance use disorders have higher health costs than those without, around $1,200 compared to $550 ...

The "opioid crisis" claimed the lives of over 80,000 Americans last year, and that figure was a 27 percent drop on the drug ...

Nevertheless, whether potential cuts to Medicaid funding would in fact cut costs is unclear. Like with any medicine, reducing access to treatments used for addiction can make people seek care when ...

But if Medicaid is axed, Fee knows exactly what will happen to the life she has pieced back together after decades of addiction ... In announcing the reduction in services, the hospital ...

My addiction had stripped away everything ... When I finally found a bed in a treatment center, it was Medicaid that covered the cost. Without it, I would have been left to die on the streets ...

Key cost-reduction strategies include work requirements for many “able-bodied” adult Medicaid enrollees as ... is that many struggling with addiction and lack of resources land in this group.

Democrats are warning that proposed Medicaid cuts by Republicans could result in thousands of Americans being denied treatment for opioid addiction ... The spending reduction is part of the ...