The entire Chapter 4 of today’s Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health includes principles for effective treatment of addiction. With the Surgeon General’s endorsement, there should no longer be any debate about what evidence-based medicine for addiction treatment entails.

As the new administration prepares to take office in January, Patrick Kennedy and his colleagues urge the President-elect to focus energy and resources on addressing a public health crisis plaguing our country’s citizens: addiction - and, in particular, opioid addiction.

In what may be his last significant act as President Barack Obama’s surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy released a report Thursday calling for a major cultural shift in the way Americans view drug and alcohol addiction.

“For far too long, too many in our country have viewed addiction as a moral failing,” Murthy said in the report. “It is a chronic illness that we must approach with the same skill and compassion with which we approach heart disease, diabetes and cancer.”

The U.S. Surgeon General issued a call to action on Thursday to end what he called a public health crisis of drug and alcohol addiction that is under appreciated and under treated.

On October 15, 2016, Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump spoke in New Hampshire specifically about the Opioid Crisis. What did it say?

AOR Advisors speak out about the urgency of America's opioid crisis and the critical progress that the current Congress can still make by fully funding CARA before the end of the year.

Cities and small towns across the United States are experiencing 2-3 deaths per day due to opioid overdose, with that number now outpacing the number of people dying from car crashes. Watch Van Jones talk about the importance of working together to address this opioid crisis.