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Alabama Political Reporter – Social workers are critically important to the nagging social ills that undermine so many lives and communities. Alabama A&M University is taking education and training to a new level with the development of this apprenticeship program,

Yahoo.com September 8, 2021 With Alabama’s COVID -19 rate spiraling upward, Alabama students and teachers are back in class, and some schools have become a hotbed of controversy as parents and administrators disagree over whether children should be required to wear

Sand Mountain Reporter September 1, 2021 Many Alabamians face structural barriers to treatment of opioid addiction, such as access and transportation to treatment facilities as well as hostile attitudes among the public and family members to addiction, according to research

AL.com August 29, 2021 For many years, courts across the country and Alabama have expanded the use of therapeutic or treatment court programs. These innovative efforts seek to address issues involving underlying substance abuse, mental health, or other conditions which

Daily Mountain Eagle – Walker County District Attorney Bill Adair does not need statistics to tell him about how addiction has impacted local families. He has seen the faces of the loved ones who feel they have nowhere to turn.

Daily Mountain Eagle – America’s youth have not been spared from the ongoing opioid crisis. In 2017, about 1,300 young adults per day misused an opioid prescription for the first time, according to Truth Initiative, a public health organization focused