Physician Reluctance to Intervene in Addiction: A Systematic Review.  Campopiano von Klimo M, Nolan L, Corbin M, et al.  JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(7):e2420837. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.20837 https://jamanetwor...

USA. Few Patients Offered Evidence-Based Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder More than a third of substance-use treatment facilities do not offer medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), and less than half were offered evidence-based psychosocia...

USA. Portland Sobering Center Delayed, But How Much Would It Help? A planned sobering center in Portland, Oregon is mired in controversy. Its opening has been pushed back to fall 2026. Downtown business owners want it built faster, and police wan...

USA. Doctors reluctant to treat addiction most commonly report “lack of institutional support” as barrier  NIH study highlights need for greater education, training, and policies to increase adoption of evidence-based care for addiction amon...

USA. To Address the Fentanyl Crisis, Greater Access to Methadone Is Needed Nora Volkow, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health, USA, 22.07.2024 https://www.asam.org/news/detail/2024/07/22/gues...

My Old Doctor Gave Me Methadone. Being Forced Into a Clinic Ruined It. I lost my leg in a car accident when I was 15. A little while after, I started having pain from nerve damage. I was prescribed oxycodone. Very quickly, and unlike the large ma...