Opioid overdoses kill each day. But it's easier to access fentanyl in Arizona than the medications that can help keep people ...

according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Cocaine is a stimulant that is often taken intranasally (snorted) or injected intravenously but is considered to have the most potential ...

Experts recommend your results from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) criteria can help create your treatment plan as well as your personal circumstances, like: history of alcohol ...

The American Society of Addiction Medicine’s official Journal of Addiction Medicine featured a paper by Dr. Holt in the November/December 2024 issue. He recommended rejecting the idea that ...

The Matthew Perry Foundation has launched a fellowship in addiction medicine at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital.

The Matthew Perry Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have created an addiction medicine training fellowship in Matthew Perry’s name and selected its inaugural fellow ...

Dr. Fisher is an addiction physician and bioethicist at Columbia University. He’s the author of “The Urge: Our History of Addiction.” When we think about any addiction, we tend to focus on ...

There's growing evidence to suggest that GLP-1 drugs, which include semaglutide, may be useful for treating alcohol use disorder.

“One model for how these drugs could be used in addiction medicine would be to have a person take these drugs, say, in the first you know, six months or a year of recovery to help knock down the ...

Here’s what to make of it. alane o'connor My name is Alane O’Connor, and I’m the Director of Addiction Medicine at Somerset County Jail in Maine. For about three years, I’ve been running a ...