Alison Knopf

    Alison has written about substance use for more than 30 years. She has also written for many years about medical coding. A freelance writer, she is also the editor of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly, and managing editor of Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update and Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter—all published by WILEY. She also writes for Addiction Treatment Forum.

    In-Hospital Drug-Use Study Shows Lived Experience Key to Better Policies

    Patients using nonprescribed drugs in the hospital is a common issue, and raises dilemmas. ...

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    Methadone Patients’ Data Poised to Be Entered Into PDMPs

    Starting August 14, methadone patients face the very real possibility that their long-protected privacy ...

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    SAMHSA Rule-Change Strips SUD Patients’ Privacy, Invites Police Intrusion 

    The long-awaited final rule revising 42 CFR Part 2—the confidentiality regulation applying to substance ...

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    Why an OASAS License for a Low-Threshold Bupe Provider Is So Significant

    REACH—a harm reduction-oriented health center in Ithaca, New York that prescribes buprenorphine, among many ...

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    NYC Begins Home Methadone Deliveries. Will It Have Lasting Impact on the Rules?

    On April 29, New York City started delivering methadone to patients isolated at home ...

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    NYC Rolls Out Courier System to Deliver Methadone to Isolated Patients

    For the 30,000 patients who take methadone every day for opioid use disorder in ...

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    SUD Patients’ Confidentiality a Quiet Victim of the CARES Act

    It took COVID-19 to do what the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ...

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    Estimated 15,000 NYC Methadone Patients to Be Isolated. How Will They Get Meds?

    There are about 30,000 methadone patients in New York City, all taking methadone on ...

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    Second Woman Reports Sexual Assault by TSA in Orlando

    A Transport Security Administration (TSA) officer sexually assaulted me during a “search” at Orlando ...

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    How the TSA Has Stonewalled My Follow-Up to Being Sexually Assaulted

    Last fall, a Transportation Security Administration agent sexually assaulted me at Orlando International Airport. ...

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