The Department of Psychiatry gives residents the opportunity to train in Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry to help those battling substance use disorders and addiction through our fellowship ...

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; 2023), more than 1 in 9 of American adults (11.8 percent) believe they have ever had a problem with alcohol or other ...

Before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the U.S. was making some headway in fighting the drug overdose epidemic. But as the nation directs scarce public health resources to combatting Covid-19, the ...

ADDICTION, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO OPIOIDS. WHAT WE SAW IS THAT THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE WHEN WE LOOKED AT OPIOIDS, WHICH WE KNOW ARE KILLING A RECORD NUMBER OF TEENAGERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY RIGHT ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Vital funding is coming to the state of Oregon to try and fill the treatment gap that exists between those who are addicted and those who can get access to help. Oregon Health & ...

Comprehensive addiction training is rare in American medical education, which denies physicians the necessary diagnostic and communication skills required to treat patients with substance use disorder ...

The federal government’s recent repeal of its special licensing requirement for providers to prescribe buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid use disorder (the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Efforts are underway at Oregon Health and Science University and around the state of Oregon to help people struggling with addiction through better addiction training for healthcare ...

For years, Kayla West watched the opioid epidemic tear through her eastern Tennessee community. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, she treated people with mental illness but felt she needed to do ...