drug treatment

Seattle's mayor and city attorney say they want to use a new state law to push people into treatment — but what happens when that's not available?

The "Blake" bill is supposed to push people into drug treatment. But the state can't say how many beds are available for them.

Since Oregon residents voted in 2020 to decriminalize hard drugs and dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars to treatment, few people have requested the services and the state has been slow to channel the funds. But Steve Allen, behavioral health director of the Oregon Health Authority, says a milestone has been reached.

Oregon officials and lawmakers say efforts to get millions of dollars in funding to treatment centers and related services as part of the state's pioneering drug decriminalization have been botched even as drug addictions and overdoses increase. Oregonians passed Ballot Measure 110 in 2020 decriminalizing possession of personal amounts of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs — the first in the nation to do so.

Treating addiction is expensive and patients often relapse. A new company is offering better results at a price that's lower in the long run — and clients get treatment right at home.

More people struggle with alcohol or drugs than have cancer, and 1 in 5 Americans binge drink. It all costs the nation $420 billion a year. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says we know how to help.

A University of Washington report on drug addiction in King County confirms that heroin use is still on the rise. But for the first time, researchers say…

For the past few years, Seattle has experimented with a different approach to handling low-level drug and prostitution crimes, and new research shows that…