photocredit: Wolters Kluwer Training in addiction medicine gives clinicians early intervention tools, prevents the
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 article out now: Wake up the doctors and teach them addictions
Addiction medicine has been 'practically untaught' for decades, but that's starting to change... Read the full text of my
Using Doctors Notes to See How They Treat people with Mental Health Disorders: New study out now
April 9th: Prevention and treatment of mental disorders challenge primary care doctors worldwide. Most of them use electronic medical records
Encouraging people to take part in studies of drug and mental health problems: New abstract out now
April 1st: Encouraging recruitment to clinical trials is a frequently reported problem. Challenges related to study design, communication,
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
Addressing a Training Gap through Addiction Research Education for Medical Students: New Paper out Now
Can medical doctors use scientifically proven treatments for addiction? Can they access and critically appraise the latest advances in the addiction
76th Annual Conference of College on Problems of Drug Dependence: Decide to be fearless& fabulous
Not one, but two conferences in Puerto Rico made my trip fantastic. As usual, the NIDA International forum happened for the 15th time on the weekend