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...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has announced the adoption of the revised Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records regulation, 42 CFR Part 2. The new rule advances the integration of healthcare for individuals...

More than 2 million people in the U.S. with an opioid use disorder (OUD) need treatment and an increasing number of individuals are receiving treatment, yet less than 20% receive effective medications such as buprenorphine. There are myriad reasons why individuals...

The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health recently updated the provisional data on opioid-related poisoning deaths (NC OCME), and the opioid overdose and unintentional med/drug overdose with potential for abuse emergency department...

Dr. Paul Lanier of the UNC School of Social Work presented on Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resiliency: Opportunities for Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders at the Governor’s Institute’s recent Addiction Medicine 2020 conference held May 1 and 2. Here...

Drs. Rebecca Grandy and Shuchin Shukla of MAHEC Family Medicine presented a talk on “Hep C and HIV PrEP: An Overview“ at the Governor’s Institute’s recent Addiction Medicine 2020 conference. There was not sufficient time for all of the questions so we asked them to...

Drs. Paul Martin and Michael Baca-Atlas co-presented a talk on “Detox Updates: Alcohol, Opioids, Benzodiazepines and Stimulants” at the Governor’s Institute’s recent Addiction Medicine 2020 conference. We followed up with several questions posed during the...

Dr. Thomas Kosten gave 2 presentations on Stimulant Misuse at the recent Addiction Medicine 2020 virtual conference: Epidemiology, Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Clinical Impact on Treatment of Stimulant Disorder and Clinical Response: Behavioral and Medication...

In response to COVID-19 and the wide-ranging effects on behavioral health, we asked Jane Finch, LCSW, to present on Psychosocial Supports for Vulnerable Patients in Times of Crisis at Addiction Medicine Conference 2020. Ms. Finch referred to these popular AA/12 step...

Dr. Jon Grant, Director of the Addictive, Compulsive and Impulsive Disorders Lab and Clinic and Professor at the University of Chicago gave 2 talks at Addiction Medicine Conference 2020: “Cognitive Traits that Predispose to Addictive Behaviors” and “Behavioral...