Treating the Epidemic, Part 3: The Future of Addiction Treatment With the rising need for qualified providers to work together in MAT programs to improve “whole person” OUD care outcomes, the federal government has given its support to the use of telemedicine to treat OUD,...

Treating the Epidemic, Part 2: The Dangers of Disruption In the first post of this series, we began looking at the problems with the existing system in place to treat the wide-spread issue of opiate addiction. Today we ask, with millions of Americans already addicted...

Treating the Epidemic, Part 1: Problems From the Start In our national conversations about the opioid epidemic in America, much attention has been given to the various factors and mechanisms which influenced the development of this wide-spread problem. In this 3-part blog post series, Treating...

Chronic Pain and Non-Opioid Medications By Dr. Jessica Badichek, PharmD More than 25 million Americans suffer from daily chronic pain. Chronic pain has many types of treatments but all too often patients are prescribed opioid medications that are highly addictive. While opioid medications may be...