Alabama advocates urge treatment over punishment for pregnant women jailed for substance use

No one particular from the Etowah County Sheriff’s section would talk to the Gulf States Newsroom about this story — but in the previous, county District Lawyer Jody Willoughby instructed…

Alabama could soon make it harder to get addiction treatment, doctor says

Alabama physicians say new proposed rules aimed at clinics that offer medicine for dependancy could make it tougher for sufferers to get care, even as overdose rates rise to history…

When Chris Farley went to ‘the place in Alabama’ to get sober

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — They named it “the position in Alabama.” That’s the place Chris Farley, a comedian who shot to stardom on “Saturday Evening Live” in the early 90s…