While CDC statistics indicate the COVID-19 pandemic is nowhere near fading away—nearly 4,000 people died of COVID-related illness during the week ending 11/21/20[1]—President-elect Joe Biden and his incoming administration will need to address another health crisis, as well: the nation’s drug epidemic is back on the rise. According to a recent POLITICO.com article, however,…
Treatment Must Be Deployed in Tandem with “Supply-side” Interventions John Romano confirms what we have been seeing for the past 3 years in phone calls and admissions to treatment. Experts HAD been predicting a leveling-off or even reduction in overdose deaths due to reduction in the “supply side” of supply and demand. Unfortunately, the high level…
ASAM applauds announcement of new addiction medicine board examination in fall of 2017 by ASAM Staff | November 30, 2016 ASAM Applauds the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) and The Addiction Medicine Foundation (TAMF) regarding new addiction medicine board examination in fall of 2017 November 30, 2016 – Today the American Board of Preventive…