Medication Assisted Treatment for Families Affected by Substance Abuse Disorders

Medication Assisted Treatment For Families Affected by Substance Abuse Disorders — The convergence of various factors highlight the need to understand the efficacy, use and implications of medication assisted treatment (MAT) for families re…


In the category of Best Education Efforts, the winners are….
Mike Siegel has been a news photographer at the Seattle Times since 1987. His photography was used in a series titled "Methadone and the Politics of Pain," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for investigative reporting. Janet Horne Henderson is The …
Read more on The Seattle Times (blog)


Painkiller addiction and adults: How does it affect children?
These drugs directly led to 16,000 deaths in users in 2012 – whether legally prescribed and used for good reasons such as chronic severe pain (often in Sickle Cell Disease for a pediatrician), or illegally diverted into a street drug for widespread use …
Read more on Philly.com (blog)