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.
Share Your Story
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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Finding Quality Treatment for Substance Use Disorders (Spanish Version)
Buscar Tratamiento De Calidad Para Trastornos De Uso De Sustancias
Substance Use, Misuse, and Use Disorders During and Following Pregnancy, with an Emphasis on Opioids
Given the complex needs of pregnant and postpartum women and their children, and the number of systems they encounter during critically important periods in their lives, ASAM provides policy recommendations on substance use, misuse, and SUDs during and following pregnancy.
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