STAT

Head of addiction medicine society warns of treatment cuts and rising threat of gambling

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. BOSTON — The president of a leading addiction medicine group issued stark warnings on hardline Trump administration policies on substance use, ...
WBUR

I returned to medicine after my opioid addiction. What I learned can help patients — and other physicians

Dr. Peter Grinspoon, pictured in Newton on Jan. 5, 2019, survived an addiction to opioids. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) It is a frozen winter afternoon in February 2015, and I am ...
The New York Times

Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds

Black patients with opioid use disorder were far less likely to fill prescriptions for the most effective addiction treatments than white patients. But strikingly few patients of all races got the ...
The Baltimore Sun

New UMD School of Medicine institute aims to change addiction treatment and prevention

As the toll of America’s opioid epidemic continues to mount, the University of Maryland School of Medicine is preparing to open a new institute for addiction medicine, where researchers, substance use ...