Addiction Medicine Updates

For decades, Americans have been told that moderate drinking is defined as two drinks a day for men and one for women. Now, a draft report from the Dietary Advisory Committee, a panel of experts that meets every five years to examine the latest science and recommend...

The Food and Drug Administration recently announced it would require drug manufacturers to include information about naloxone on the labels of opioid painkillers. Naloxone, often referred to by the brand name Narcan, has been used in the U.S. to reverse opioid...

U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) recently introduced the Telehealth Response for E-prescribing Addiction Therapy Services (TREATS) Act to support the expansion of telehealth services for substance use disorder treatment. The bill would...