president-elect of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. These treatments are currently used by only a fraction of patients with opiate addictions, she said. Medicaid programs in at least 17 ...

Imagine a patient named Rosa tells you she wakes up night after night in a drenching sweat after having very realistic dreams ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. A coalition of advocacy groups including a leading addiction medicine society and a center-right think tank is pressing the Trump ...

Similarly, the American Society of Addiction Medicine recommends that payers “eliminate prior authorization requirements for all formulations of addiction medications.” As an addiction ...

During rotations, fellows will participate in integrated visits with health psychology, addiction medicine, and adult psychiatry to evaluate long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain while promoting ...

It's been operational for the better part of a year, but Kern Medical took the time Monday to formally unveil its primary care-based addiction medicine program, both for patients, and for training ...

“One model for how these drugs could be used in addiction medicine would be to have a person take these drugs, say, in the first you know, six months or a year of recovery to help knock down the ...

David Smith was a role model to other physicians and became known as one of the fathers of addiction medicine in the United States, a title of which he is rightfully proud. He still remembers when ...

Addiction medicine providers told members of Philadelphia City Council that addiction treatment options have not caught up to the complex needs of today. FILE: An opioid crisis resource kit containing ...

Massachusetts General Hospital on Tuesday announced the creation of the "Matthew Perry Foundation Fellowship in Addiction Medicine." The inaugural fellow is Dr. Sarah "SK" Kler, who will join an ...

Over the course of a decade as an addiction medicine doctor, Lynn E. Fiellin saw patients who were already struggling with drug addiction as young adults. “If only I knew then what I know now ...