Support comprehensive treatment for pain and substance use disorders
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The AMA urges all health insurance companies and other payers to remove administrative and other barriers to patient care.
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The AMA wants to hear directly from physicians how they are responding to the nation’s opioid epidemic. By sharing your story, you will help inform AMA advocacy in our work on behalf of physicians and patients.
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The AMA Urges Removing All Barriers to Treatment for Substance Use Disorder
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Postincarceration Fatal Overdoses After Implementing Medications for Addiction Treatment in a Statewide Correctional System
JAMA Psychiatry
Public Policy Statement on the Regulation of Office-Based Opioid Treatment
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Why It’s Inappropriate Not to Treat Incarcerated Patients with Opioid Agonist Therapy
AMA Journal of Ethics. September 2017, Volume 19, Number 9: 922-930.
Sarah E. Wakeman, MD
A Primer on Antagonist-Based Treatment of Opioid Use Disorders in the Office Setting
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