Opioids
This issue brief examines how integration can take various forms based on provider, patient and community needs and how telebehavioral health can help in areas with shortages of behavioral health professionals.
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The Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus and the Association of American Medical Colleges today sponsored a Capitol Hill briefing to highlight the urgent nationwide need for more physicians to treat substance use disorders.
Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, yesterday introduced the Senate companion to the Opioid Workforce Act.
Addressing social needs, increasing access to medication-assisted treatment and naloxone, as well as better integrating substance use disorder treatment with physical care are crucial steps hospitals and health systems can and are taking to combat the opioid epidemic.
The National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic, of which the AHA is a sponsor, yesterday concluded a two-day meeting on progress to combat the opioid crisis.
Traumatic experiences makes children more vulnerable to both medical illness and behavioral health problems, and often create hidden obstacles to providing effective treatment.
Opioid overdose death rates increased for nearly all racial and ethnic groups in metropolitan areas between 2015 and 2017.
The Drug Enforcement Administration last week launched a new online database for reporting “suspicious orders” of opioids and other controlled substances.
To meet the demand for health care workforce development and expansion, New York’s Staten Island Performing Provider System (SI PPS) partnered with the College of Staten Island and SEIU/1199 Training and Education Fund to sponsor an apprenticeship program and short- and long-term training…