Experts to Examine Use of Cannabinoids as Medicine
From science to politics to social media, one of the most-discussed topics is the legalization of marijuana and its use as medicine. Sunday, a panel of experts will discuss the science of cannabinoids...
View ArticleUrine Drug Testing Workshop to Focus on Physician-Patient Partnership
A two-part, four-hour workshop on Sunday will help participants increase their knowledge and confidence about using patient-centered urine drug tests in clinical practice. Part one of “Urine Drug...
View ArticleSession to Examine Definition of Addiction as One Disease
ASAM’s definition of addiction, as a primary chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry, will be the focus of “Addiction is Addiction: Clinical Perspectives from...
View ArticleREMS Course Focuses on Appropriate Use of ER/LA Opioids
Physicians, as well as all health care professionals who prescribe extended-release/long-acting opioids (ER/LA), can learn about the safe and effective use of ER/LA through a three-hour REMS course...
View ArticleManaging Sedative Dependency: A Challenging Problem
Sedatives have long been known to be a difficult class of drugs to manage because most patients become dependent on them. A Sunday session, “Updates in Treating Sedative Dependency in Addiction and...
View ArticleUpdated Buprenorphine Course Combines Online, Live Case-Based Learning
ASAM is updating the eight-hour course physicians must complete to obtain a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine. The new course, which will be rolled out in July, will be a flipped classroom format...
View ArticleCultural Competence Growing in Importance in Addiction Treatment
The Affordable Care Act has helped drive addiction medicine more into the mainstream of health care, and with that has come a broader spectrum of patient subsets and management challenges. A Sunday...
View ArticleNew e-Learning Center Improves Online Education Options
ASAM has upgraded the online education options for its members with the launch of the e-Learning Center (e-LC), which replaces the e-Live Learning Center. At the end of the Annual Conference, the new...
View ArticleMillennium Award Supports Research of Medication Monitoring, Drug Testing
Fellows who research medication monitoring and drug testing were recognized Saturday during the Annual Awards Luncheon and in a poster submission by the 2014 award winner. Ahmed N. Hassan, MD, FRCPC,...
View ArticlePlan to Attend 2016 Annual Conference
Mark the date for the next ASAM Annual Conference. The Annual Conference will take place April 14-17, 2016, at the Hilton Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore and its historic Inner Harbor offer a...
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