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Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: A Research-Based Guide (Third Edition)
Preface Drug addiction is a complex illness. It is characterized by intense and, at times, uncontrollable drug craving, along with...
Sep 5, 20231 min read
Recovery
About Recovery Recovery is a process of change through which people improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives, and...
Sep 5, 20231 min read
What does it mean to be ‘in recovery’? We need a better federal definition
“When I use a word,” one of 19th century British author and mathematician Lewis Carroll’s characters once said, “it means just what I...
Sep 5, 20231 min read
The Opioid Epidemic: How Wellbeing Can Help Bend the Curve
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Drug overdose death rates have risen in the U.S. at alarming levels over the past two decades, characterized...
Jul 31, 20231 min read
FDA Issues First Draft Guidance on Clinical Trials with Psychedelic Drugs
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a new draft guidance to highlight fundamental considerations to researchers...
Jul 31, 20231 min read
White House Releases Response Plan to Address Emerging Threat of Fentanyl Combined with Xylazine
Earlier this year, Biden-Harris Administration used executive designation authority for the first time to declare xylazine combined with...
Jul 31, 20231 min read
ASAM supports a wide variety of measures to prevent alcohol- and other drug-related problems
In total, alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use exacts more than $700 billion annually in costs related to crime, lost work productivity...
Jul 31, 20231 min read
The U.S. House of Representatives Must Rise to the Moment: Cutting Methadone’s Red Tape Means Saving
Download ASAM Op-ed | Malik Burnett, MD, Cara Poland, MD, Carlos Tirado, MD, Lucinda Grande, MD, and Margaret Jarvis, MD From the halls...
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Join AMNet: An Addiction Medicine Practice-based Research and Quality Improvement Network
Your Participation Makes a Difference AMNet is seeking addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry practices and their providers to join...
Jul 28, 20231 min read
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