Alison Knopf, the award-winning journalist and editor of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly (ADAW), recently published an article highlighting...
Medication Assisted Treatment Deemed Appropriate for Sober Living
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Modernizing Addiction Medicine Requires Medical Professionals
I wrote back in October 2016 (“Primary Care Doctors Staying Out of Addiction Treatment”) about how primary care doctors have shied away from taking...
FDA Push for MAT Means More Money for Big Pharma
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), coupled with psychosocial counseling, is widely acknowledged to be the current “gold standard” of care in...
DOJ: Denying Services to Persons on MAT Violates ADA
On Thursday, May 10,2018, the US Department of Justice announced that it had reached a settlement agreement with Charlwell House, a skilled nursing...
What Does It Mean When We Call Addiction a Brain Disorder?
When the 2016 Florida Legislature allocated funds for the formation of the Palm Beach County Sober Homes Task Force, my first instinct was that the...
Legal Action Center’s Response to President’s “Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand”
Yesterday in New Hampshire, President Trump outlined his administration’s three-pronged plan for addressing the opioid epidemic. While the strategy...
Negative Press Causing Referrals to Florida to Come Into Question
The Portland Press Herald reported on July 19, 2017 in the article “Operation Hope stops sending clients out of New England for opioid addiction...
