Updates

U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) recently introduced the Telehealth Response for E-prescribing Addiction Therapy Services (TREATS) Act to support the expansion of telehealth services for substance use disorder treatment. The bill would...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has announced the adoption of the revised Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records regulation, 42 CFR Part 2. The new rule advances the integration of healthcare for individuals...

More than 2 million people in the U.S. with an opioid use disorder (OUD) need treatment and an increasing number of individuals are receiving treatment, yet less than 20% receive effective medications such as buprenorphine. There are myriad reasons why individuals...

The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health recently updated the provisional data on opioid-related poisoning deaths (NC OCME), and the opioid overdose and unintentional med/drug overdose with potential for abuse emergency department...

Dr. Paul Lanier of the UNC School of Social Work presented on Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resiliency: Opportunities for Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders at the Governor’s Institute’s recent Addiction Medicine 2020 conference held May 1 and 2. Here...

Drs. Rebecca Grandy and Shuchin Shukla of MAHEC Family Medicine presented a talk on “Hep C and HIV PrEP: An Overview“ at the Governor’s Institute’s recent Addiction Medicine 2020 conference. There was not sufficient time for all of the questions so we asked them to...