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A $325,000 state needs assessment says South Dakota should direct more of its opioid settlement money to addiction care for people in the justice system.

Oregon, Rhode Island and Michigan have shelved plans to start Medicaid before release from jail, and only four of 19 approved states have programs running.

H.R. 9790 would let board-certified addiction specialists prescribe methadone for pharmacy pickup, bypassing clinics absent from 80 percent of U.S. counties.

New York City budgeted $3 million a year for a program that pays 20 cents per used syringe and has collected more than 2.3 million needles in 16 months.

New York's Governor signed a law letting the state's mental health and addiction agencies set a single licensing standard for integrated care of co-occurring disorders.

California says 97.7% of licensed retailers now comply with its kratom and 7-OH ban, pulling 6,960 products from shelves as the DEA moves to schedule the compounds.

New Jersey becomes one of the first states to require hospitals to confirm drug test results before reporting new mothers to child welfare authorities.

Arizona's Medicaid agency AHCCCS debuts a GenAI locator built on Google's Gemini that connects residents to more than 100 vetted opioid treatment providers.

FDA sets a September 14 public hearing on therapeutic psychedelics and finalizes its first clinical trial guidance for psilocybin, LSD and MDMA.