April 4: Methadone is a medication used in treatment of people with dependence from heroin or other opioids. Many people who take it drink too much
New paper out now: Primary care distributes life-saving medication for 17 years
The year was 1996 and Ireland was recovering from a recent heroin epidemic. Methadone, a medical replacement drug for heroin, was jut making its way
Irish doctors trained to save by the nose
Can junior doctors learn to spray a life-saving medication into noses of people who overdosed on opioids? A new study from Ireland attempted to answer
Alcohol and Methadone Don’t Mix! What’s New in Addiction Medicine? lecture series
Please join us on Tuesday, October 27 for this month’s edition of the “What’s New in Addiction Medicine?” lecture series. This (free) event
New BMJ personal view out now: Training in addiction medicine should be standardised and scaled up
Most health systems lack sufficiently trained doctors to reduce the public health consequences of this problem, writes J
New paper out now: Alcohol Screening among Opioid Agonist Patients in a Primary Care Clinic and an Opioid Treatment Program
February 25th: Drinking in people who also use other illicit drugs causes serious problems. Their doctors and health professionals can ask about
Doctors sweat to discover traditions of the first nations
Many doctors see addiction as a disease of body only. If overdone, this view can lead to medicalization of addiction. Some may argue that the latest
Which talking therapies work for drug users with alcohol problems? A Cochrane update
Have you ever had an unresolved question and you kept asking again, again and again, until you got the answer? We wanted to find out whether talking
How Cochrane Keeps the Addiction Science in Check
Science isn’t infallible. Humans make mistakes even in this highly sophisticated method of understanding the world around us. Thanks God, addiction