Get in the car loser, new CMS model just dropped:
Innovation in Behavioral Health (IBH), focused on improving quality of care and behavioral and physical health outcomes for Medicaid / Medicare pop with moderate to severe mental health conditions and substance use disorder (SUD)

Grateful to The Boston Globe for elevating the urgent need to make #methadone - a lifesaving medication - available through doctors' offices and pharmacies.
bostonglobe.com/2023/11/09/opi… via

via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2023/11/09/opi…

We are in a critical period in the fight to legalize OPCs. The committee hearing recently took place, and now legislators have to decide on whether to pass the bill out of committee with a favorable recommendation or not. (1/2)

Learn more about certification in addiction medicine >> asam.org/education/addi…

#TreatmentWeek #NATW #AddictionMedicine #AddictionTreatment #NationalAddictionTreatmentWeek #ASAM #EndStigma #BoardCertification #TreatAddictionSaveLives

.KFF’s Greater Than HIV has teamed with CDC HIV's #StopHIVTogether on a new video series featuring leading public health experts on the latest in HIV, STDs, & sexual health. First up DrDemetre on the power of PrEP, why U=U is a game changer, and more!🎬bit.ly/ask-dr-demetre

Here’s my latest op-ed for the The Boston Globe. My ties to Long Island are personal. I was court ordered to treatment there at 14 & worked there as an adult. I’m grateful Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 is committed to getting back there. bostonglobe.com/2023/09/05/opi… #bospoli #mapoli

Today, on Overdose Awareness Day, I grieve with every person that has lost a child, sibling, parent, or friend to an overdose.

Let's find hope in the 20 million brave Americans recovering from substance use disorder who show us what's possible when people receive the care and…

My friend died of a heroin overdose at the age of 26 because she relapsed and, in her shame as isolation, used alone.

It didn’t have to happen that way.

#IOAD2023

This year on #InternationalOverdoseAwarenessDay , we're acknowledging and supporting the people in our communities who go unrecognized, and raising awareness of the impacts of overdose.

#IOAD #ASAM #OverdoseAwarenessDay #AddictionTreatment #AddictionMedicine

🗓️Episode #20: Extending Knowledge of Long Acting Injectable (LAI) Buprenorphine w/Dr. Ken Lee & Zina Huxley-Reicher, MD. He teaches us the 101 of LAI bup for PCP's
🔥Tips for administering LAI bup
💊Managing missed doses

Listen here: thecurbsiders.com/addiction The Curbsiders American College of Academic Addiction Medicine #MedEd

For #IOAD I’m begging my fellow healthcare workers to care compassionately + non-judgmentally for people who use drugs when they’re alive. Compassionate evidence-based treatment and harm reduction is overdose prevention. This is my mission! What does this look like? A thread 1/x

Overdose is preventable. In 2021, the first two locally approved overdose prevention centers (OPCs) in the US opened in NYC. They’ve already averted 1,000+ overdoses, all while providing thousands of people with a range of other care.

Watch our full video about lifesaving OPCs:…

🧵We applaud SAMHSA as the 1st federal agency to release a “Harm Reduction Framework” w/ requests for feedback, & call on SAMHSA to make necessary changes to save lives.

Read our full comments: bit.ly/SAMHSAHRframew…

“Positive media portrayals and the humanisation of people who use drugs can help form a common identity, engender empathy, and ultimately improve health outcomes.” #stigma tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Applications open through Thursday, 8/31! Apply or nominate now >> asam.users.membersuite.com/community/comp…

#Awards #ASAM #AddictionMedicine #ASAM Awards #AddictionAndSociety #AddictionTreatment #RuthFox #RuthFox Scholarship

An anti-obesity GLP-1 drug restores associative learning (under dopaminergic midbrain control), as shown in a randomized trial with a single dose
nature.com/articles/s4225… Nature Metabolism

Two-thirds of adults say either they or a family member have been addicted to alcohol or drugs, experienced homelessness due to addiction, or experienced a drug overdose leading to an emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death.

From ⁦KFF⁩ kff.org/other/poll-fin…

Good morning from Denver where the incredibly hard work my colleagues and I put in every day in the clinic apparently means nothing because our government won’t allow us to have the tools we need to keep people alive amidst an unprecedented drug crisis.

coloradosun.com/2023/08/02/hom…

Opioid addiction treatments are effective but few patients are getting them

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