Chronic Non-Cancer Pain, Opioid Medication, and Addiction: How Dangerous?
Can opioid medications for chronic non-cancer pain cause addiction? This issue was on the minds of many people in the
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Can opioid medications for chronic non-cancer pain cause addiction? This issue was on the minds of many people in the
Another policy issue that received attention at the ASAM 2015 meeting related to buprenorphine. I and many other addiction professionals
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) is one of the organizations that I hold in high regard. With more
Editor’s Note: Addiction research studies have repeatedly documented a high incidence of ADHD in patients with all types of substance
Debates are designed to emphasize differences, but sometimes areas of agreement can be just as important. This is especially true
EDITOR’S NOTE: This week instead of the usual written essay, I am posting a “photo essay” with captions based on
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is text of the acceptance speech that I gave yesterday after receiving the Psychiatrist of the
This was the path to recovery from alcohol and drug addiction that retired baseball player Darryl Strawberry described in an
April — for T.S. Eliot, “the cruelest month”—has been designated as Alcohol Awareness Month. I will mark it by writing
Each year I review the highlights of the previous year at Kolmac, looking at both threads of continuity and changes.
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