Which student learns best with hospital teams fighting opioid crisis? Understanding how students learn is perhaps the most important way to improve
Excellent scale assesses needs across four countries
What is the smartest scale for asking clinicians about their training needs? In a new article published by the Journal of Substance Abuse
Do more drug tests improve addiction treatment?
Frequent drug tests in addiction treatment have become a common practice despite proven benefits of such testing. When do tests become the end instead
Diagnosing opioid addiction in people with chronic pain
Diagnosing opioid addiction in people with chronic pain requires a fully validated alternative to DSM-5. Over the past two decades, a steep rise in
Frequent urine testing lacks evidence
Clinicians commonly use urine drug tests to detect or validate self-reported drug use, particularly when beginning and maintaining opioid agonist
Alcohol holding up methadone treatment
This review asked whether excessive drinking can get in the way of treating heroin addiction. No current evidence supports the clinical
Primary care looks at drinking among persons on methadone treatment
How should primary care doctors ask their methadone patients about alcohol use? We worked with 13 primary care doctors and divided them into two
What do persons on methadone in primary care think about alcohol screening?
Enhancing alcohol screening and brief intervention among people receiving opioid agonist treatment: Qualitative study in primary care New Paper Out
Changing the ways of CPDD – College on Problems of Drug Dependence – June 12-16, #CPDD2016
Change is the ultimate law of life. Those that do not change and adapt, do not survive. In the life of scientific meetings, this means constantly