Medicaid enrollees with substance use disorders have higher health costs than those without, around $1,200 compared to $550 ...

When we talk about cutting Medicaid, we're talking about dismantling this critical support system,” writes Ryan Hampton.

Blindly expanding a program that currently gives recipients little health benefit at a high cost makes no sense.

The "opioid crisis" claimed the lives of over 80,000 Americans last year, and that figure was a 27 percent drop on the drug ...

Nevertheless, whether potential cuts to Medicaid funding would in fact cut costs is unclear. Like with any medicine, reducing access to treatments used for addiction can make people seek care when ...

Long Island addiction-treatment providers said Monday that a congressional spending bill's $880 billion in proposed cuts, ...

Senate Republicans say they intend to change the House-passed bill, and some pointed to changes to Medicaid as a possible red ...

My addiction had stripped away everything ... When I finally found a bed in a treatment center, it was Medicaid that covered the cost. Without it, I would have been left to die on the streets ...