TnSAM Chapter Monthly Meetings
Please contact Dr. Zotos or ASAM membership for dates and times.
A Zoom invitation will be sent to members upon request.
Psychiatrist Sentenced to 54 Months in Jail for Addiction Treatment Fraud
This article by Megan Brooks, July 08, 2022 can be viewed in its original format on the Medscape Website
Psychiatrist Jose Santeiro, MD, of Miami Lakes, Florida, has been sentenced to 54 months in prison for engaging in a scheme that fraudulently billed about $112 million for substance abuse services that were never provided or were medically unnecessary, the US...
International Overdose Awareness Day
We are sharing the information below on behalf of our colleagues at the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
International Overdose Awareness Day is coming up August 31. To mark the date, the State of Tennessee and its community partners are holding trainings on overdose reversal. The medication known as naloxone (brand name Narcan) is an easy-to-use overdose...
TNSAM’s Support for the Enactment of SB 2572
TnSAM supports SB2572 A Bill to increase access to Naloxone to reduce overdose deaths.
View letter to Governor Lee
Bad news-good news: Each additional ACE increases opioid relapse rate by 17%; each ACE-informed treatment visit reduces it by 2%
August 15, 2019By Jane Ellen Stevens in ACE Study
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It’s no surprise that serious childhood trauma can lead people to use opioids. In the absence of healthy alternatives and an understanding of how experiences — such as living with a parent who’s alcoholic or depressed, divorce, and being constantly yelled at when you’re a kid — can make your adult...
Driving Under the Influence of Drugs and Alcohol – A Report Pursuant to House Bill 17-1315
As mandated by House Bill 17-1315 in Colorado, this report provides a comprehensive overview of the public safety impacts of drug-impaired driving, highlighting the drugs involved and the court outcomes of driving under the influence case filings from 2018.
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Mandatory Medicaid State Plan Coverage of Medication-assisted Treatment
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is issuing the following guidance about section 1006(b) of the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act (herein referred to as the SUPPORT Act) (Pub. L. No. 115-271). To increase access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorders...
2020 Tennessee Drug Overdose Deaths
The purpose of this brief report is to describe drug overdose deaths in Tennessee in 2020, with an emphasis on providing useful data to stakeholders of the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) at the regional and county levels. Results presented here derive from vital statistics death certificate data as well as data from Tennessee’s prescription drug monitoring program, the...
A Message from the President: Daniel D Sumrok, MD, FAAFP, DFASAM, ABPM, ABAM
Greetings TNSAM members,
There has never been a more important or exciting time to bring your expertise, experience, and skills to the emerging field of Addiction Medicine. There are high expectations facing us as pioneers and innovators while a pandemic has isolated us from each other and as overdose deaths have soared in Tennessee and across the country.
It has...
Exciting Time For Addiction Medicine – Alexander Zotos, MD, FASAM
Greetings from TnSAM,
I hope everyone enjoys their summer and takes some time off for family, friends, and personal endeavors.
It is an exciting time for addiction medicine. More and more light is being shed on the opioid epidemic currently facing our communities. The tides are turning on the liberal use of opiates for “chronic pain.” Just recently, the President of the AMA, Steven Stack,...
SB1391- Bad Medicine in Tennessee for Pregnant and Drug-addicted Women
A July law could lock up new mothers who are on drugs, a move that some say will inflict even more harm
September 30, 2014 5:00AM ET
by Lindsay Beyerstein@Beyerstein
Excerpt: In theory, a woman who gives birth to a sick baby could avoid the misdemeanor-assault charge that SB1391 carries by successfully completing a court-approved drug-rehab program. But for a number of reasons, including...