What’s a Doctor Shopper? The term “doctor shopping” refers to obtaining controlled substances from multiple health care practitioners, usually without the prescribers’ knowledge of the other prescriptions.
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High School Confidential: In the Trenches with Substance-Using Teenagers
First in a series of blog posts by child and adolescent psychiatrist Peter Cohen.
It’s a Pain to Research SBIRT
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment has a lot of moving parts. That makes measurement tricky.
Creative Responses to Youth Substance Use
Young people are creative–we should be, too. Learn about the Hilton Foundation’s flexible approach to SBIRT for youth.
Update Your Image of a Person with a Substance Use Disorder
So we know that words like “junkie” and “alcoholic” evoke an inaccurate image of a person with a substance use disorder
Separate Medication from Level of Care
We would help a lot more people with opioid use disorders and quell a lot of criticism if we stopped using this inaccurate paradigm in addiction treatment.
Ch-ch-changes
IRETA is saying farewell to our “employee #1,” Kristine Pond, who retires this week.
Standardized patients are powerful simulation technology
Learning SBIRT with standardized patients helps students “practice saying the words themselves.”
A person experiencing an opioid overdose needs oxygen and/or naloxone to survive
New ways to incorporate overdose prevention, response, and experience into substance use disorder treatment.
An Interview with Em DeMarco on Recovery Homes
A couple of months ago, I read an article called The Brotherhood of Recovering Addicts about recovery homes, also known as sober homes and three-quarter way houses
