Your addiction specialist can also help your family and friends understand how to support you in your recovery. Emergency Room Team If you’re admitted to an emergency room, you may work with ...

Opioid addicts covered by Medicare and Medicaid are less likely to receive the mental health and substance use treatment that ...

Substance use disorders cost employers $25K per year per employee—before treatment. Joanna Conti shares how bundled care models can change everything.

Addiction care providers urgently need the state's help to retain workers, get more people into treatment and expand prevention services. Credit: Getty Images. Recently, a leader in the addiction ...

Fully integrating addiction treatment into the health care system is a massive undertaking that will require time, resources, and a coordinated effort by health systems and local, state, and ...

According to federal prosecutors, 64-year-old Mi Ok Song Bruining was nicknamed by her co-workers at Recovery Connections Centers of America as the "Five Minute Queen" for substituting a one or ...

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During her Ph.D., psychologist Lotte Gosens and colleagues working in intellectual disability care and addiction care developed a treatment that does work. "The participants used less alcohol and ...

But a training program in addiction medicine offered by OHSU is providing help by sharing resources, best practices and collaborative problem solving on complex cases. While most of the people who ...

The Trump administration must soon make a decision that will affect millions of Americans' ability to access and afford mental health and addiction care.. The administration is facing a May 12 ...