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US Settlement Signals Protection for Addiction Medicine

By Travis Loller NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee correctional officer will receive $160,000 in back pay and damages after he was forced to resign for taking Suboxone to treat his opioid use disorder, if a judge approves a landmark consent decree filed in federal court in Nashville on Wednesday. It is the first time the U.S. Department of Justice has used the Americans with...
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National Crisis of Gen-Z

Jonathan Haidt on the ‘National Crisis’ of Gen Z Warped by social media and a victimhood culture,today’s young people will imperil American culture and capitalism,the social psychologist warns. The phrase “generation gap” became popular in the late 1960s, as baby boomers were coming of age. To hear social psychologist Jonathan Haidt tell it, today’s generation gap has widened into a...
International Overdose Awareness Day 2022
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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...
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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 _______________________________ 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...