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West Virginia awarded $500,000 to Potomac Highlands Guild for wearable monitoring and AI tools across eight eastern counties in a federal rural health program.
The Morehead nonprofit will receive $350,000 a year for three years and restart the jail-to-community reentry program that ran out of money.
Hawaii Virtual Care launched a statewide virtual intensive outpatient program for substance use and mental health amid a 39 percent psychiatrist shortage.
A free vending machine dispensing naloxone, pregnancy tests and hygiene supplies at Copper Mountain College was restocked twice in its first week.
HRSA's Rural Communities Opioid Response Program awarded $1.05 million to a Pendleton nonprofit serving four Oregon and Washington counties.
North Carolina will spend more than $17 million in federal rural health funds on addiction treatment, mobile crisis teams and psychiatric care for 2026-27.
HRSA awarded $89.3 million through its Rural Communities Opioid Response Program, including $62.7 million for integrated treatment and recovery services.
Yakima County's first inpatient medical detox facility begins accepting patients, bringing medication-assisted withdrawal care to a county that lost 90 people to overdoses in 2025.
New study in Addiction Science & Clinical Practice documents how a mobile opioid treatment unit in Rhode Island reaches unhoused patients and breaks down barriers to care.
Health policy groups urge CMS to increase transparency for the $50B Rural Health Transformation Program as states prepare to submit first progress reports.
Attorney General J.B. McCuskey redirects future opioid settlement dollars away from the WV First Foundation to state legislature and local governments for more direct distribution.
Connecticut has invested more than $4 million in opioid settlement funds into its first state-funded mobile methadone units, with a rural northeast van starting Aug. 18.
HHS Secretary Kennedy toured a Southside Virginia addiction rehab facility while promoting the $50B Rural Health Transformation Program amid Medicaid cuts.
H.R. 9790 would let board-certified addiction specialists prescribe methadone for pharmacy pickup, bypassing clinics absent from 80 percent of U.S. counties.
Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts awards grant to Kachemak Bay Recovery Connection as part of $3.7 million nationwide investment in community-based addiction treatment infrastructure.
Idaho Behavioral Health Council recommends directing opioid settlement funds toward rural areas, first responder support, and workforce development as state considers 46 project proposals.