Addiction Medicine
Program Profile
Implementing Smoking Cessation Telehealth Technologies Within the VHA: Lessons Learned
Health care systems need practical, scalable methods to reach patients and connect them to available, evidence-based...
Commentary
A new and completely different pain medicine
Patients assigned to the highest dose of VX-548 had a statistically significant lower cumulative amount of pain in the 48 hours after surgery.
Opinion
Prescribing lifestyle changes: When medicine isn’t enough
In prescribing lifestyle changes, it is important to offer most of these changes as suggestions, not as things we insist on.
News
App cuts alcohol intake in risky drinkers
“Our brief electronic intervention had clear impact on the drinking behavior of hazardous drinkers.”
Latest News
‘Landmark’ trial shows opioids for back, neck pain no better than placebo
Opioids don’t relieve low back or neck pain in the short term and lead to worse outcomes in the long term.
Latest News
New international guidelines on opioid deprescribing
The recommendations describe best practices for stopping opioid therapy and emphasize slow tapering and individualized deprescribing plans...
Commentary
New DEA CME mandate affects 2 million prescribers
One should not underestimate the sweeping scope of this new federal requirement.
Latest News
Pharmacotherapy underprescribed for alcohol use disorder
Hospitalizations are an underutilized opportunity to engage patients with appropriate treatment, including initiation of medications for alcohol...
News
Tips for addressing uptick in mental health visits: Primary care providers collaborate, innovate
Clinical psychologist recommends primary care providers screen all adult patients for depression and anxiety.
Commentary
Are you a physician ... or a vending machine?
We stopped prescribing oxycodone and now people are on gabapentin in the highest doses, diversion is up, and so is its abuse.