Tag: healthcare
SAMHSA Ushers in Law Enforcement “Fishing Expeditions” for MAT Patients
The federal government’s move to ditch confidentiality regulations for substance use disorder treatment will ...
SAMHSA to Drop SUD Treatment Confidentiality Rule, Because “Times Change”
The attack on patient confidentiality—by the very agency that is supposed to protect it—has ...
The First-Ever MDMA Therapy Training for Communities of Color Was Vital
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) hosted the first-ever MDMA Therapy Training for ...
Lisa’s Legacy: How the Buprenorphine X-Waiver Costs Lives
The young woman paced frantically around the hospital room, dark bags under her bloodshot ...
Man Who Died of OD Was Allegedly “Kicked Out of Treatment for Smoking”
I can’t lose everything,” Paul Reithlinghshoefer told his mother when he relapsed back to ...
How Should Primary Care Physicians Talk to Patients About Drug Use?
All primary care physicians should screen their patients for drug use, recommended an independent ...
Your Methadone History Could Soon Be Shared Without Your Consent
The federal government wants to weaken confidentiality rules for patients with addictions. This means ...
How Did We Come to Abandon America’s Pain Patients?
Overdoses—not those involving prescription opioids, but of heroin and illicit fentanyl, often combined with ...
How Can Harm Reduction Do Better for Transgender People?
In 2015 Tori Cooper decided to leave a successful nonprofit career to blaze a ...
Probation Officers Should Never Direct Medical Care for People With OUD
The Oregon State Senate voted in April to decrease barriers to lifesaving medical treatment ...
