Today’s Opioid Addiction and Overdose Epidemic: How We Can Make a Difference

• By: Jeffrey Selzer, MD Medical Society of the State of New York
• January 1st, 2020
• addiction treatment access, evidence-based care, healthcare workforce training, medication-assisted treatment, opioid epidemic, opioid use disorder, overdose prevention, stigma reduction
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The opioid addiction and overdose epidemic that has ravaged America for two decades now has left almost no one untouched. From 1999 to 2017, more than 400,000 people in the United States have died from overdoses related to opioids. According to a poll by the American Psychiatric Association,...

New York State Office of Mental Health Using Medication-Assisted Treatment and Other Resources to Fight the Opioid Epidemic

• By: Dr. Ann M. Sullivan New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH)
• January 1st, 2020
• buprenorphine access, evidence-based practices, integrated treatment, medication-assisted treatment, mental health, naloxone distribution, opioid epidemic, opioid use disorder
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Every day, more than 130 people die in the United States as a result of opioid overdose. The opioid abuse epidemic has become a national public health crisis with devastating economic, societal and human costs. People with mental illnesses served in the public mental health system have...

Mental Health Services and Opioid Use and Dependence: A Non-Sequitur?

• By: Lloyd I. Sederer, MD Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
• January 1st, 2020
• buprenorphine, harm reduction, medication-assisted treatment, mental health, naloxone, opioid epidemic, opioid use disorder, substance use intervention
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What does mental health have to do with mitigating the opioid epidemic? Isn’t it a problem for substance disorder programs, or addiction doctors? Well not really, if you consider the rates of opioid use and opioid use disorder (OUD) in patients seen in the community-based, non-profits in NYS...