A huge problem in our country is that most of the people whom we trust to provide addiction treatment are poorly qualified or unqualified. The biggest group of these are people without any ...

The Department of Psychiatry gives residents the opportunity to train in Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry to help those battling substance use disorders and addiction through our fellowship ...

The Baylor College of Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship holds accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education since 2008. Our program is a one-year (PGY-5) training ...

Scientists have found that the process of adaptive myelination, which helps the brain learn new skills, can also promote addiction to opioids. Our brains, even in adulthood, continually adapt to what ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. Having watched ...

Nearly a decade into the opioid epidemic and in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians in America seem to remain uncertain about how to identify and treat patients with addiction disorders, a ...

PAs have a critical role to play in helping to address the opioid crisis. Currently, there is no required course on addiction medicine in PA schools. The Physician Assistant Educational Association ...

One central message arose from a Wednesday event at Missouri Western State University: No matter how much it might be under the surface, every community needs to grapple with drug addiction. This sums ...

Dr. Ellen Unterwald in one of the labs at the Center for Substance Abuse Research at Temple Medical School in Philadelphia, Pa. on Friday, June 29, 2018. (Jessica Griffin/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS) Dr ...

The program accommodates a total of four fellows each academic year. Each training year is divided into two six-month blocks. The second six-month block is composed of clinical rotations shared ...

Our brains, even in adulthood, continually adapt to what we do, strengthening or weakening neural pathways as we practice new skills or abandon old habits. Now, research by Stanford Medicine ...