The truth about MAT? Patients know the virtue
The CDC and Surgeon General encourage us to improve naloxone access at the local level, through prescribing and pharmacy dispensing
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- Sep 19, 2019
What is TMS and can it help treat withdrawal, addiction and depression?
A safe, effective, FDA-approved treatment for depression: transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS
- Aug 22, 2019
We have vaccines for polio and the flu, how about opioid addiction?
By Mark Gold, MD Preliminary 2018 data from the Centers for Disease Control show a slight decline in drug overdose deaths.1 In the view...
- Aug 21, 2019
Ask a Counselor: What is Contingency Management?
Contingency Management (CM) is a behavioral therapy based on Operant Conditioning Theory.
- Jul 31, 2019
NEW CME! Championing Change: Addressing Addiction in our Communities
CME Outfitters (CMEO), a leading international provider for continuing medical education, has partnered with renowned addiction...
- Jun 19, 2019
Ask a Counselor: How can I help my family understand what I’m going through?
Free resources that translate the science into digestible information, and can help you and your loved ones to better understand addiction.
- May 30, 2019
Ask a Counselor: What is an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)?
In intensive outpatient programs (IOPs), patients can receive between nine-to-19 hours of treatment services per week.
- Feb 4, 2019
Addiction 101
Understand the basics of addiction, including how it affects the brain, why some people are more susceptible to developing an addiction,...
- Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: Treating a Patient with an Opioid Overdose
When someone has been revived from an opioid overdose reversal medication, they come out of it very scared, angry and confused.
- Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: Medications for Addiction Treatment
It's essential that we use the scientific process to guide how we implement treatment.
- Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: Recovery
There are 23 million Americans that are in recovery and we need to make sure that everyone, families included have resources and support.
- Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: Addiction in America
We have 21 million Americans right now who are struggling with a substance use disorder.
- Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: SBIRT - Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment
SBIRT is a concept that has been utilized in other disease processes but really addiction is its primary usage.
- Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: What is Addiction?
Nobody chooses addiction. This isn't a choice for us. We aren't here because we're bad people, we're here because we have an illness.
- May 14, 2018
Best Practices for Emergency Departments to Address Addiction
We have 21 million Americans right now who are suffering with a substance use disorder.
- Jan 19, 2017
Effective Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
By Addiction Policy Forum The Addiction Policy Forum's Translating Science into Practice series provides policymakers and practitioners...
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