Addiction 101
Understand the basics of addiction, including how it affects the brain, why some people are more susceptible to developing an addiction,...
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Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: Treating a Patient with an Opioid Overdose
When someone has been revived from an opioid overdose reversal medication, they come out of it very scared, angry and confused.
Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: Medications for Addiction Treatment
It's essential that we use the scientific process to guide how we implement treatment.
Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: Recovery
There are 23 million Americans that are in recovery and we need to make sure that everyone, families included have resources and support.
Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: Addiction in America
We have 21 million Americans right now who are struggling with a substance use disorder.
Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: SBIRT - Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment
SBIRT is a concept that has been utilized in other disease processes but really addiction is its primary usage.
Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: What is Addiction?
Nobody chooses addiction. This isn't a choice for us. We aren't here because we're bad people, we're here because we have an illness.
May 14, 2018
Best Practices for Emergency Departments to Address Addiction
We have 21 million Americans right now who are suffering with a substance use disorder.
Jan 19, 2017
Effective Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
By Addiction Policy Forum The Addiction Policy Forum's Translating Science into Practice series provides policymakers and practitioners...
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