Colorado’s best-served regions had enough providers to offer 81% of the primary care visits (in the San Luis Valley) and 72% of the mental health and addiction care (in Denver) that their ...

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

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 ...

Rhode Island Acting U.S. Attorney Sara Bloom announced that a clinical social worker was sentenced on Wednesday to three years of supervised release for her role in a scheme to defraud health care ...

Topics covered during didactics include medical and psychiatric comorbidities, identification and treatment of toxidromes and withdrawal syndromes, special populations, acute and chronic pain ...

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 ...

When we talk about cutting Medicaid, we're talking about dismantling this critical support system,” writes Ryan Hampton.

“It’s the exact opposite of how we should be helping people,” said Lister. “We should aspire to provide health care services ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...