Resources
The AMA has collected more than 400 educational and other resources to provide evidence-based recommendations for physicians and policymakers.
The AMA has collected more than 400 educational and other resources to provide evidence-based recommendations for physicians and policymakers.
The first in this series—Science to Medicine: Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)—offers quick, targeted information on how to get started offering OUD treatment medications and other recovery support services in your practice. Learn about the science behind it, hear how your peers have implemented it, find resources to get started, and propose a topic for the next Science to Medicine series.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse provides background information and resources to better understand and reduce stigma. The page includes links to preferred language for talking about addiction as well as language showing compassion for women, infants, families and communities impacted by substance use disorders.
The JAMA Network
The AMA Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force urges physicians and other health care professions to continue taking action to help reverse the nation’s drug overdose epidemic—and the Task Force also calls on policymakers to take specific steps to remove barriers to evidence-based care for patients with pain and those with a substance use disorder.
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to reverse the nation’s opioid epidemic.