addiction

Fentanyl test strips are one of a handful of proposals hoping to curb the number of overdose deaths in the state.

Opioid overdoses spiked during the pandemic and recovering from addiction can take years and involve multiple relapses. One Kansas man explains how access to medical care has played a pivotal role on his path to recovery.

Thirty-four-year-old Tanner first tried opioids as a teenager. Since then, he says doctors have helped him by prescribing medications that reduce cravings.

Alex Tretbar spent five years in prison for his part in a drug-related shooting. His award-winning poetry takes inspiration from incarceration, addiction and The Velvet Underground.

Problems caused by excessive gambling are not just financial. Too much time spent on gambling can lead to relationship and legal problems, job loss, mental health problems including depression and anxiety, and even suicide.

Kansans with substance use problems say they are falling through the cracks of a legal system that’s more concerned with punishing them than getting them sober.

Fentanyl overdose deaths in the Kansas City area have soared recently. But some health care providers say Missouri is unprepared to deal with this new phase of the opioid crisis. Plus, the University of Kansas men's basketball team are NCAA champions.

Fentanyl is driving an overdose crisis that’s proving especially deadly for Black Missourians. Now Kansas City is starting to see the effects, but health experts say that existing efforts to treat substance use disorder aren’t helping the people who need it most.

The trial of University of Kansas professor Feng "Franklin" Tao started on Monday. Tao was arrested as part of much-criticized Trump-era program designed to catch spies sharing American intellectual property and secrets with China. Plus, some Kansas jails are finally allowing medical care for opioid addiction.

Existing syringe exchange programs in St. Louis and Kansas City, allowing drug users to swap out used syringes with new clean ones to help fight diseases like HIV, have functioned for decades in a "grey area" of the law.

Dozens of state and local jurisdictions had sued Johnson & Johnson and three other drug distributors, alleging they downplayed the addictive nature of opioid painkillers. Proceeds of the settlement will go directly to addiction treatment and prevention programs.

Since August 2020, more than 200 people have started treatment for drug addiction at the Crawford County Jail. Most continued their treatment after leaving jail.