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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• Medication-Assisted Treatment Of Opiate Dependence Is Gaining Favor
• New Drug-Drug Interactions in Opioid Therapy App for iPhones, iPad and Android Devices Now Available
• Q & A – Trends in Prescription Drug Abuse: ‘Bridging Medications’
• Oxycodone Vaccine Passes Early Tests

GENERAL DRUG ADDICTION

• Drug Addiction Relapse Infographic: The Revolving Door
• Study: Many Arrested Men Use Illegal Drugs But Don’t Receive Treatment
• Study: Sending Nonviolent Drug Offenders 7o Treatment Instead of Prison Saves Money
• Navigating the Gap: A Compelling Method for Working in the Space Between Addiction Research and Practice

GOVERNMENT

• Health Law Could Overwhelm Addiction Services

June 5, 2013

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• American Society of Addiction Medicine Urges an End to Interference with Physician-Patient Decisions on Addiction Medications
• Medication-Assisted Treatment for Substance Use Disorders: Research and Practice Training Session
• Terminating an Addicted Employee

GENERAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE ADDICTION

• As DSM-5 Launches, the Drama Ends and the Effects Begin
• 5 Myths about Addiction that Undermine Recovery
• Many Medical Residents Give Poor Marks to Addiction Training: Survey

GOVERNMENT

• SAMHSA Request for Comments on the Federal Guidelines for Opioid Treatment
• SAMHSA Appoints Elinore F. McCance-Katz, M.D. to the New Position of Chief Medical Officer
• New Tip Manual from SAMHSA: Addressing Substance Use Disorders in Men
• Panel: Behavioral Health Providers Uncertain About Impact of Coming Health Reforms

May 14, 2013

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• Titan Pharmaceuticals Receives Complete Response Letter from the FDA for Probuphine New Drug Application
• Vivitrol: A Shot in the Dark
• No Generic Version of Painkiller Oxycontin, U.S. Health Regulators Say
• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Linked to Exorbitant Costs
• Genes Found That May Protect Infants Born to Addicted Mothers
• Vaccine Halts Heroin Addiction in Rats
• Legal Interventions to Reduce Overdose Mortality: Naloxone Access and Overdose Good Samaritan Laws

GOVERNMENT

• Health Law Could Overwhelm Addiction Services
• 2013 National Drug Control Strategy Released
• Two Congressmen Talk Addiction With The Fix
• How to Make Drug Courts Work

May 8, 2013

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• National Rx Drug Abuse Summit Focused National Attention, Efforts on Addressing Prescription Drug Abuse Issues
• Blog: The State of Denial (Tennessee) gets Another Chance/Update on the State of Denial: Is the Tide Finally Turning?
• Bangor Committee Backs Methadone Bill That Would ‘Decentralize’ Treatment, Reduce City’s Share of Patients
• Deaths Tied to Painkillers Rising in the U.S.
• New Poll Ranks Chronic Pain Well Below Drug Addiction As A Major Health Problem

GOVERNMENT

• The Affordable Care Act: Shaping Substance Abuse Treatment Information Brief
• Opinion by Seddon R. Savage: Affordable Care Act Offers Opportunity to Combat Pain and Drug Abuse
• The President’s FY 2014 Budget: Supporting A 21st Century Drug Policy
• Good Samaritan Overdose Response Laws: Lessons Learned from Washington State

MISCELLANEOUS

• New Book Available – Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy

April 8, 2013

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• Forced Methadone Withdrawal in Jails Creates Barrier to Treatment in Community
• Blog: Obstetricians Behaving Badly
• Panel Backs Approval of Implants for Addiction Treatment
• The Existential Pain of Being Young, White, and Affluent

ADDICTION RESEARCH

• Addiction’s Shrinking Gender Gap
• Stress & Addiction: Research Identifies How Stress Triggers Drug Relapse

GOVERNMENT

• House Bill Aims to Curb Prescription Drug Abuse

March 11, 2013

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• AATOD Guidelines for Guest Medication
• Video: White Collar Prescription Drug Addiction Epidemic
• U.N. Report Suggests Some Autism & Addiction Treatments Are Akin to Torture

GOVERNMENT

• Affordable Care Act to Provide Substance Abuse Treatment to Millions of New Patients
• Mental Health Law Increases Access to Substance Abuse Treatment, But Costs Rising
• A Day at the Drug Court
• Outside Box, Federal Judges Offer Addicts a Free Path

HEPATITIS C

• Studies Advance Knowledge of HIV Impact on Hepatitis C Infection and Genes That May Thwart HCV
• Patient Dilemma: Treat Hepatitis C Now or Hold Out?

STATE NEWS OF INTEREST

• Pennsylvania – Under the Influence of … Methadone, Others Want More Oversight of Opioid Connected to Fatal Crashes
• Tennessee – Safe Harbor Bill to Protect Infants Wins Passage in TN Senate Health and Welfare Committee

March 1, 2013

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals Inc. Receives FDA Response To Citizen’s Petition
• FDA Approves Amneal’s Generic Suboxone to Treat Opioid Drug Dependence
• Blog – News Outlets Behaving Badly: Appalling Article by Bloomberg
• Addiction Expert: Treatment Providers Can Perpetuate Media Stereotypes of Patients
• Sharp Rise in Buprenorphine-Related Emergency Department Visits from 2005 To 2010
• Fatal Drug Overdoses in U.S. Increase for 11th Consecutive Year
• Heroin: Small Cities, Even Rural Towns Face Growing Problems
• Target ‘Super-spreaders’ to Stop Hepatitis C

GOVERNMENT

• Rockefeller Urges Federal Agencies to Take Stronger Steps Against Prescription Drug Abuse
• Affordable Care Act Will Expand Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits and Parity Protections for 62 Million Americans
• Are Drugs Today Really Cheaper, Purer, and More Available Than Ever? Blog by Rafael Lemaitre Communications Director, The Office of National Drug Control Policy

MISCELLANEOUS

• Prepaid Card Designed to Help Those in Recovery From Addiction Manage Money

FEATURED UPCOMING EVENT

• National RX Drug Abuse Summit in Orlando FL April 2-4 2013

February 1, 2013

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• Effective Risk Management Strategies in Outpatient Methadone Treatment – Trainer’s Manual and PowerPoint Slides
• No Additional Benefit of CBT in Treating Opioid Addiction with Buprenorphine
• Prescription Drug Misuse Remains a Top Public Health Concern
• FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Abuse-Deterrent Opioids
• Drug Abuse Treatment Could Save Billions in Criminal Justice Costs
• Parents Numb to Misuse of Narcotic Pain Meds by Youth, New Poll Shows
• NYPD Will Implant GPS Chips Into Pill Bottles To Combat Prescription Drug Abuse
• Reducing Opioid Prescription Painkiller Abuse, Mayor Bloomberg Announces New Guidelines
• The December 2012 issue of Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems is Now Available Online
• Researchers Say MRI Could Help Predict Success of Drug Addiction Treatment – 1/18/13

HEALTH CARE REFORM

• Access to Health Care Services for Addiction Will Improve Dramatically: Faces & Voices of Recovery

January 14, 2013

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• AATOD Issues Policy Statement for Five-Year Game Plan (2012-2016)
• Sharp Rise in Admissions for Certain Drug Combinations Over 10 Years
• Suboxone® Sales Estimated to Reach $1.4 Billion in 2012—More Than Viagra® or Adderall®
• Is The Era Of OxyContin Abuse Over?
• Accidental Exposures of Children to Drug that Treats Opioid Addiction Alarms Utah Poison Control and Health Officials
• Probuphine(R) Receives FDA Priority Review Designation for Adult Patients with Opioid Dependence
• Liver Toxicity Fears with Buprenorphine, Methadone Allayed
• Plan to End Methadone Use at Albuquerque Jail Prompts Alarm
• Study: Distributing Naloxone Injection Kits Could Help Addicts Reverse Heroin Overdoses

ADDICTION

• Controversial Surgery for Addiction Burns Away Brain’s Pleasure Center

HEALTH CARE REFORM

• States Moving Forward to Implement the Health Care Law

December 26, 2012

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• Federal Rule Provides Flexibility in Dispensing Buprenorphine for Opioid Addiction Treatment in
  OTPs
• One-Half of Buprenorphine-Related Emergency Department Visits for Nonmedical Use
• Why Do We Have Methadone Clinics? An OpEd by Dr. Alen-Salarian
• Opioid Overdose Treatment and Prevention: Often Overlooked at Community Level
• Baker Institute Viewpoints on Prescription Drugs
• State Drug Monitoring Programs Should Make Data More Accessible, Study Says

GOVERNMENT

• U.S. Military Working on Combination Anti-Heroin/HIV Vaccine
• Michael Botticelli Sworn in as Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
• Reports Says Adults Who Had Mental Illness in the Past Year Were More Than Three Times as Likely to Have Met the Criteria for Substance Dependence or Abuse

GENERAL ADDICTION

• APA Board of Trustees Has Approved the Final Diagnostic Criteria for the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
• Blog: The Deadly Stigma of Addiction – Is it Possible to Separate the Disease of Addiction from the Stigma? Here Are Eight Life-changing Reasons We Should Try.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Prisoners Face Long Wait for Drug-Rehab Services

November 29, 2012

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• Benzodiazepine & MAT Conference Videos Available From IRETA
• Blog: Benzos at the Opioid Treatment Program
• Blog: PTSD at the Opioid Treatment Program
• The Beginning of the End of the Abstinence Rule?
• Perspective: Docs Feel Pressure to Give Addicts Opioids
• U.S. Addiction Diagnoses up 70 Percent
• New Infographic From NIDA – Maternal Opiate Use and Newborns Suffering From Opiate
  Withdrawal Are On The Rise in The U.S.

THE SCIENCE OF ADDICTION

• Commentary by Dr. Joseph Shrand: Drug addiction is Not a Moral Failing
• Slide Show:The Brain Scans of Addiction, Unscrambled
• Blog: Why Addiction is NOT a Brain Disease

November 5, 2012

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• More Addictions Treated with Drug Therapy
• Methadone Protects Injected Drug Users from HIV Infection
• Reckitt to Discontinue Suboxone Tablets in U.S.
• As Prescription Painkiller Overdoses Mount, Researchers Outline Effective Approaches to Curb
  Epidemic
• Decrease in Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs Among U.S. Residents Fueled by Decrease
  in Pain Reliever Use

HEALTHCARE REFORM, DRUGS, OBAMA/ROMNEY ON ADDICTION

• New American Society for Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Advocacy Paper – The Impact of
  Managed Care on Addiction Treatment
• Get Ready Now for Influx of Patients under Affordable Care Act, Expert Urges
• Dear Mr. President: A Modest Proposal No need to debate this: Treating addiction as a disease is
  America’s greatest single opportunity to reduce costs to taxpayers, improve health and reduce
  crime.
• How Would the Candidates Debate Drugs?

September 5, 2012

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Part 2: Helping Patients Succeed
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Methadone by Maia Szalavitz
• 3Qs: When Painkillers Kill
• Estimated Number of Buprenorphine- and Hydromorphone-Related ED Visits More Than
  Doubles from 2006 to 2010
• 150 Soldiers Have Died of Drug Overdose in the Last Two Years, Says Congressman
• Preventing Overdose: Obama Administration Drug Czar Calls for Wider Access to Overdose
  Antidote
• Why Heroin? A Federal Agent Offers an Overview of the Opiate Trade

ADDICTION

• Welcome to Dopamine Nation

PRESCRIPTION DRUG MONITORING

• Congressional Research Service Report on Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
• RI Hospital: Use of PMP May Increase Demand for Drug Treatment, Reduce Painkiller Abuse

HIV TESTING

• U.S. Health Panel Likely to Make HIV Tests Routine

August 10, 2012

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• Vital Signs: Risk for Overdose from Methadone Used for Pain Relief — United States, 1999–2010
• Abuse-Proof Prescription Painkillers May Spur Heroin Habit
• Majority of Buprenorphine-Certified Physicians Think Buprenorphine Is Easier to Get Illegally
  Than Methadone
• June 2012 Issue of Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems is Now Available Online
• New Drug Abuse Warning Network (Dawn) Report Issued on Drug-Related Emergency
  Department Visits
• Medication-Assisted Treatment – Three Part Article Series Available From the Addiction
  Technology Transfer Center (ATTC)
• NIDA Backs Research on Vaccine Against Heroin, HIV

HEPATITIS

• Research: Availability of Viral Hepatitis Services in U.S. Drug Treatment Programs

MISCELLANEOUS

• Infographic: Why Drug Treatment is More Effective Than Incarceration

STATE NEWS TO NOTE

• Kentucky – Prescription Drug Abuse Bill Making Its Mark Just Days After Going Into Effect,
  Officials Say

June 6, 2012

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MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

• Choosing Treatment for Pregnant Women Addicted to Opioids
• OTC Naloxone? It’s Possible
• Reformulated OxyContin Reduces Oral, Nonoral Abuse Among Potential Opioid Abusers
• Harsh Cameron Douglas Sentence Sparks Appeal, Support
• Rockefeller, Manchin Applaud Senate’s Support of Prescription Drug Bill

BENZODIAZEPINES IN THE NEWS

• Well-Known Mechanism Underlies Benzodiazepines’ Addictive Properties
• I-Team: ER Visits Tied to Xanax, Similar Drugs Soar in NYC

DRUG ABUSE AND CRIME

• Data Suggests Drug Treatment Can Lower U.S. Crime

HEPATITIS C

• Hepatitis C Lurks Inside Baby Boomers