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Alcohol Use Disorder Is the Largest Untreated Market in Addiction Care. Three Medications Have Been Approved for Years, and Almost No One Receives Them.

While institutional capital and policy reform have spent a decade transforming the opioid treatment landscape, the nation's most prevalent substance use disorder remains virtually untouched by modern ...

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Wyoming Medicaid ABA Runs on Two Tracks, and Only the DD Waiver Rate Was Cut. A Pandemic Funding Cliff Dropped 97153 to $7.00, and a July 2026 Schedule Restored It to $19.23.

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Xylazine and Medetomidine Are Rewriting What Overdose Looks Like. Naloxone Reverses the Opioid and the Patient Still Will Not Wake Up.

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Verbal Beginnings RBTs in Rockville Struck July 20 Over a First Contract. The Standoff May Come Down to Reimbursement, Not Just Bargaining.

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Medicaid Reentry Waivers Are Opening a New Market in Addiction Care. The Weeks After Release Are the Deadliest for Overdose, and Coverage Now Reaches Through the Gate.

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Value-Based Care in Behavioral Health Lives on the Floor, Not in the Binder. Here Is What Separates the Programs That Work.

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Contingency Management Is the Only Proven Treatment for Stimulant Use Disorder. Paying Patients to Get Better Is Still Hard to Fund, and Harder to Do Legally.

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Alaska Medicaid ABA Rates Jumped Roughly 41 Percent on July 1, 2026, Lifting the State to the Top of the Regional Range. A Guidehouse Rate Study, Not Inflation, Reset the Numbers.

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GLP-1 Drugs for Addiction Are Moving From Anecdote to Evidence. A 2026 Trial Suggests Semaglutide Can Blunt the Urge to Drink.

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Alcohol Use Disorder Is the Largest Untreated Market in Addiction Care. Three Medications Have Been Approved for Years, and Almost No One Receives Them.

Regulation

Wyoming Medicaid ABA Runs on Two Tracks, and Only the DD Waiver Rate Was Cut. A Pandemic Funding Cliff Dropped 97153 to $7.00, and a July 2026 Schedule Restored It to $19.23.

Technology

Xylazine and Medetomidine Are Rewriting What Overdose Looks Like. Naloxone Reverses the Opioid and the Patient Still Will Not Wake Up.

M&A

Alcohol Use Disorder Is the Largest Untreated Market in Addiction Care. Three Medications Have Been Approved for Years, and Almost No One Receives Them.

Featured Healthcare Articles

Wyoming Medicaid ABA Runs on Two Tracks, and Only the DD Waiver Rate Was Cut. A Pandemic Funding Cliff Dropped 97153 to $7.00, and a July 2026 Schedule Restored It to $19.23.

Xylazine and Medetomidine Are Rewriting What Overdose Looks Like. Naloxone Reverses the Opioid and the Patient Still Will Not Wake Up.

Verbal Beginnings RBTs in Rockville Struck July 20 Over a First Contract. The Standoff May Come Down to Reimbursement, Not Just Bargaining.

Medicaid Reentry Waivers Are Opening a New Market in Addiction Care. The Weeks After Release Are the Deadliest for Overdose, and Coverage Now Reaches Through the Gate.

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Value-Based Care in Behavioral Health Lives on the Floor, Not in the Binder. Here Is What Separates the Programs That Work.

Contingency Management Is the Only Proven Treatment for Stimulant Use Disorder. Paying Patients to Get Better Is Still Hard to Fund, and Harder to Do Legally.

Alaska Medicaid ABA Rates Jumped Roughly 41 Percent on July 1, 2026, Lifting the State to the Top of the Regional Range. A Guidehouse Rate Study, Not Inflation, Reset the Numbers.

GLP-1 Drugs for Addiction Are Moving From Anecdote to Evidence. A 2026 Trial Suggests Semaglutide Can Blunt the Urge to Drink.

Alcohol Use Disorder Is the Largest Untreated Market in Addiction Care. Three Medications Have Been Approved for Years, and Almost No One Receives Them.

Wyoming Medicaid ABA Runs on Two Tracks, and Only the DD Waiver Rate Was Cut. A Pandemic Funding Cliff Dropped 97153 to $7.00, and a July 2026 Schedule Restored It to $19.23.

Xylazine and Medetomidine Are Rewriting What Overdose Looks Like. Naloxone Reverses the Opioid and the Patient Still Will Not Wake Up.

Verbal Beginnings RBTs in Rockville Struck July 20 Over a First Contract. The Standoff May Come Down to Reimbursement, Not Just Bargaining.

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