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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
Sep 19, 2019


Ask a Counselor: What is Contingency Management?
Contingency Management (CM) is a behavioral therapy based on Operant Conditioning Theory.
Aug 21, 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...
Jul 31, 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.
Jun 19, 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.
May 30, 2019


Addiction 101
Understand the basics of addiction, including how it affects the brain, why some people are more susceptible to developing an addiction,...
Feb 4, 2019


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.
Aug 10, 2018


Best Practices for Emergency Departments to Address Addiction
We have 21 million Americans right now who are suffering with a substance use disorder.
May 14, 2018


Effective Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
By Addiction Policy Forum The Addiction Policy Forum's Translating Science into Practice series provides policymakers and practitioners...
Jan 19, 2017
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