Physician efforts to end the epidemic

The American Medical Association's 2025 report on the nation’s overdose epidemic showed that while opioid-related overdose deaths declined last year, the epidemic remains widespread and increasingly[…]

This state-by-state snapshot of news, state health department reports and other relevant information provides insight into trends and developments related to overdose, treatment and prevention.

The AMA continues to monitor current research, news, state health department reports and other relevant information from national, state and local public health agencies, law enforcement, emergency[…]

AMA President-elect speaks on the nation’s overdose epidemic. A video of this interview can be found here. Unger: Hello and welcome to the AMA Update video and podcast. On the heels of National[…]

The American Medical Association Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force highlights progress in addressing the drug overdose epidemic, including increased harm reduction efforts, access to naloxone[…]

The American Medical Association (AMA) and Manatt have developed recommendations for policymakers to improve access to care for pregnant and postpartum people with opioid use disorder, focusing[…]

The American Medical Association Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force continues to advance evidence-based recommendations for policymakers and physicians to help end the nation’s drug-related[…]

(reprinted with permission from Texas Medicine Today) The Texas Medical Board (TMB) recently revised one of its rules in a way that makes it easier for physician practices to provide more[…]

“ The fight to end the nation’s overdose epidemic and restore compassionate care: Profiles in leadership .” Read more how a select group of physicians, policymakers and patient advocates exemplify[…]

The American Medical Association Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force continues to advance evidence-based recommendations for policymakers and physicians to help end the nation’s drug-related[…]

“When children have pain, it needs to be treated,” said Rita Agarwal, MD, in a recent AMA Advocacy Insights webinar on the stigma facing patients with pain, including young children. The panel[…]

While many people talk about the mind-body connection as part of optimal care for patients with pain, Arizona physician Whitney James, MD, has gone a step further, developing her own program to make[…]

The AMA and Manatt Health 2022 State Toolkit identifies more than 400 state laws, regulations, policy guidance and other select national actions being implemented to help end the nation’s drug[…]

One of the best ways to help patients with a substance use disorder is to become active in state politics, said multiple physicians at the recent American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) State[…]

Nearly 500 physicians across 46 states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have used a Michigan-based program to help become board certified in addiction medicine, and its architects hope to[…]

Don Stader, MD was working a shift in the emergency department (ED) in Denver, Colorado, in 2015 when he came face to face with his own stigma about opioid use disorder (OUD). A limp woman pulled from[…]