by Pollen Williamson | Jun 17, 2019 | Content
Controversy has surrounded the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain in 2016, with many critics claiming that the guidelines made it more difficult for severe pain patients to receive the medication...
by Pollen Williamson | Jun 12, 2019 | Content
The NAATP has released the Addiction Treatment Provider Quality Assurance Guidebook: A Guide to the Core Competencies for the Delivery of Addiction Treatment Services. The guidebook, which is available free of charge, identifies nine categories in which addiction...
by Pollen Williamson | Jun 6, 2019 | Content
A NC Health News article explains about 50 percent of people with an eating disorder also misuse alcohol or an illegal substance. Experts say people use substances and behaviors associated with eating disorder to self-treat underlying, often undiagnosed, mental health...
by Pollen Williamson | Jun 3, 2019 | Content
Dr. Jana Burson discusses how many physicians still get confused about how to treat acute pain in patients who are prescribed buprenorphine products for opioid use disorder. In her blog, she explains that while buprenorphine products (whether Suboxone, Subutex,...
by Pollen Williamson | May 29, 2019 | Content
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Public Safety are partnering to create a new medication-assisted treatment (MAT) program to reduce the overdose-related deaths of people with an opioid disorder who are re-entering their...
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