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Arizona Addicted

Recent Stories

Nature's Healing

AZPM Staff

The Amity Foundation has created a program where people in recovery are getting in touch with nature at the Circle Tree Ranch.
Tucson Police program offers drug treatment for some instead of arrest

Kassandra Lau

Arizona 360 sees how the program is implemented with the department's Substance Use Resource Team.
Some pushing for wider distribution of opioid-overdose antidote

Christopher Conover

With hundreds of overdoses so far this year, law enforcement and health workers are using naloxone to save lives.
Diversion programs aimed at lowering drug-related incarcerations in Pima County

AZPM Staff

The county attorney's office says its approach is unique in Arizona.
News

How Pima County treats inmates with addiction, behavioral health issues

AZPM Staff

Lorraine Rivera toured the jail with correctional officers and health care staff.
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Novel or familiar: A conversation about drug addiction and the brain

Tony Perkins

Researchers are seeking a better understanding of compulsive behavior on a cellular level.
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How green light might help pain sufferers wary of opioid addiction

Tony Perkins

A UA scientist is researching how the color green can be used to help manage chronic pain.
Arizona Spotlight Special: Arizona Addicted

Mark McLemore

Tearing down the stigma that surrounds opioid addiction with stories from Arizonans who have lived the experience, and found the road to recovery.
Opioid treatment options lacking in rural Arizona

AZPM Staff

A discussion with AZPM reporter Jake Steinberg.
Indigenous Affairs

Pascua Yaqui clinic working to treat opioid addiction, overcome stigma

Emma Gibson

The clinic is the state's only medication-assisted treatment facility on tribal land.
Miles from Recovery: How distance and stigma keep rural Arizonans from opioid treatment

Jake Steinberg

As treatment options expand, solutions remain elusive for some.
What Arizona’s opioid prescription guidelines mean for physicians

AZPM Staff

An expert says old prescribing habits are hard to change, but that there has been a noticeable shift.