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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved the pill from Vertex Pharmaceuticals for acute pain that often occurs after surgery ...

“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 ...

While none of the new policies, individually, represents a paradigm shift in addiction medicine, the three actions collectively underscore the administration’s emphasis on treatment.

Going beyond treating opioid overdoses, paramedics in Wake County are carrying a different medicine to treat the addiction itself.