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We published an article recently about medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and telehealth that reviewed the latest evidence on the safety and effectiveness of MAT delivered through video or audio communications...
If you’re not familiar with how the opioid crisis unfolded over time, it’s important to understand the crisis is now in its third decade, and that opioid overdose is...
A meta-analysis published in the journal Current Psychiatry Reports in July 2022 called “Telehealth-Based Delivery of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: A Critical Review of Recent Developments” evaluated...
Methadone treatment for fentanyl addiction is an evidence-based therapeutic approach for opioid use disorder (OUD) that’s one option in medication-assisted treatment (MAT), which involves the use of medications for...
When Congress passed a law officially establishing the month of July as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month (MMHAM), we entered a new era. The goal...
When we talk about the opioid crisis in the U.S., the first thing we tell people is that it affects everyone, including expecting mothers with opioid addiction during pregnancy....
In 2021, a bipartisan group of U.S. congresspeople proposed a new bill: the Modernizing Opioid Treatment (MOTA) Act, designed to remove barriers to care and affect people in methadone...
In 2002, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a medication called buprenorphine that ushered in a new era of opioid addiction treatment, and now, close to 25 years...
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has a simple answer to the question many people ask themselves when they read about the opioid crisis – why is fentanyl so dangerous...
In the U.S., the drug overdose crisis – also called the opioid crisis – continues to impact individuals, families, and communities nationwide, and researchers recently published new data on...
