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Addiction medicine is a medical subspecialty that deals with the diagnosis, prevention, evaluation, treatment, and recovery of persons with addiction, of those with substance-related and addictive disorders, and of people who show unhealthy use of substances including alcohol, nicotine, prescription medicine and other illicit and licit drugs. [3]
Scott E. Hadland (born November 19, 1981) is a Canadian-American physician and scientist who serves as a pediatrician, and addiction specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital [1] [2] [3] and Harvard Medical School, where he is the Chief of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine.
Anna Lembke (born November 27, 1967) is an American psychiatrist who is Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University.She is a specialist in the opioid epidemic in the United States, and the author of Drug Dealer, MD, How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop. [1]
It’s easier than ever for doctors to prescribe a key medicine for opioid addiction since the U.S. government lifted an obstacle last year. Researchers analyzed prescriptions filled by U.S ...
Medical doctors by specialty and nationality (46 C) * Fictional medical specialists (12 C, 21 P) A. Addiction physicians (7 C) Allergologists (18 P) Anatomists (11 C, ...
Robert Taylor, a doctor who founded the business in 2013 and operated it through late 2018, pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking conspiracy charge. Van Tatenhove sentenced him to 30 months in ...
Addiction psychiatry encompasses both medicine and psychotherapy, or professional therapeutic interaction, as the means of treating individuals. In a conventional addiction psychiatry session, addiction psychiatrists will gain a better understanding of their patient's lifestyle by gathering medical history and the patient's mental health concerns.
But just 31 percent of the 7,745 doctors in those areas are certified to treat the legal limit of 100 patients. Even in Vermont, where the governor in 2014 signed several bills adding $6.8 million in additional funding for medication-assisted treatment programs, only 28 percent or just 60 doctors are certified at the 100-patient level.