“The cost should not be fully borne by the doctors, because there are many other people that are benefiting from this, including the board, malpractice insurers, hospitals, the medical association,” ...

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 ...

Twenty-eight of them continued to receive their addiction care at a pharmacy, while the other 30 had the usual follow-up care with a doctor or an opioid treatment program.

I am one of the few hospital-based addiction medicine physicians in the country. I received 2 years of training in the treatment of addiction, have board certification from the American Board of ...

Kern Medical welcomed a new class of resident and fellow physicians, including six in a new general surgery residency program, all aimed at strengthening health care locally. The hospital announced ...

Jarratt Pytell, internal medicine and addiction medicine physician and assistant professor in the CU Division of General Internal Medicine. We recently spoke with Pytell to discuss this research, ...

Still, there appears to be a misconception that “less is more,” said Melissa Weimer, medical director of the Yale Addiction Medicine Consult Service, which treats hospitalized patients with ...

At Lee Health, we offer SUD treatment for adults through Lee Physician Group Addiction Medicine, and the services offered include medication-assisted treatment (MAT), individual therapy, group ...

As Dr. Kenneth Morford, an addiction medicine physician and assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine, told me, “If a patient qualifies for a medication like semaglutide and happens to have ...

For one, addiction medicine specialists are rare: currently, fewer than 2,500 physicians nationwide are certified in addiction medicine, and only 2,000 are certified in addiction psychiatry.