Videos

This National Institute of Mental Health film produced by George Washington University surveys the problem of narcotics in the 1960s, and details efforts to study and implement new…

Journalist Eilene Zimmerman looked at white-collar drug addiction. She was interviewed by former health commissioner for Baltimore, Dr. Leana Wen.

Sarah Milov talked about her book, The Cigarette: A Political History. She looked at nonsmokers' rights activists and their strategies in the context of other social movements, including…

Professor Sarah Milov talked about her book, The Cigarette: A Political History, in which she explored the political history of tobacco in America. She was interviewed by David Kessler,…

200,000 was the first-prize high school central division winner in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Mason Chow and Leviathan Lee, eleventh graders at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma, produced…

Andrew Siddons talked abuot the flavored tobacco products ban bill being debated in the House.

White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway, National Drug Control Policy Director James Carroll, and HHS Assistant Secretary of Health Admiral Brett Giroir held a press briefing on the opioid…

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on states' efforts to combat the opioid epidemic. Public health officials from Massachusetts, North…

Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and other state officials spoke about the opioid epidemic and its impact on the Appalachian region of the U.S. They also discussed which programs are…

Government officials and health care professionals testified on efforts to address the opioid epidemic before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Officials with the White House, Justice…

The White House hosted a summit on efforts to deliver mental health treatment to people experiencing homelessness, violence and substance use disorder. In this portion, Housing and Urban…

The White House hosted a summit on efforts to deliver mental health treatment to people experiencing homelessness, violence and substance use disorder. In this portion, mental health…

President Trump briefly addressed a day-long White House summit on efforts to deliver mental health treatment to people experiencing homelessness, violence and substance use disorder.

Viewers commented on a new American Medical Association report showing that the death rate among Americans between the ages of 25 and 64 is increasing, driving down U.S. life expectancy for a third…

First lady Melania Trump spoke at the B’More Youth Summit, an event that aims to promote awareness to students of the nation’s opioid crisis.

Medical practitioners and experts examined challenges in research and innovation at a day-long forum hosted by Research!America in Washington, D.C. Dr. Ned Sharpless, acting commissioner of the Food…

Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams testified on substance abuse treatment before the Senate Finance Committee. Dr. Adams outlined various strategies to combat the opioid epidemic including…

Bioethicist Travis Rieder explored the opioid crisis and shared his own experience with opioid dependency. Mr. Rieder is the author of In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with…

The RAND Corporation hosted a discussion on the fentanyl and synthetic opioid epidemic. Drug policy experts discussed the trends in fatal overdoses in the U.S. and the challenges…

The 2019 Oxford House annual convention was focused on the opioid epidemic and substance abuse recovery efforts. This portion of the event included a panel discussion on drug courts and…