Articles of Interest

Soper Says: In 2012 the American Society of Addiction Medicine smartly set forth a definition of addiction that encompasses both substance abuse and certain compulsive behaviors. Using ASAM’s definition a clinician can assess process and appetite addictions. Some discussion of this classification is topic today. In most ways, substance and behavioral addictions are incredibly similar....

Prescription Opiate Abuse — from Liquid Soap by Rich Soper, September 3, 2013 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 100 people in the United States die from drug overdoses every day, and death rates as a result of drug overdoses have more than tripled since 1990. The CDC also reports that nearly three out of four prescription drug overdoses are caused by opiates....

Several people have asked me to delineate the particulars concerning this Parity Law and TN Care restrictions.  If you can bear with me to the end, I think the position will be clear. As you know, TNCare limits the amount of Suboxone they will pay for for a recipient.  They allow 16mg (2 tabs or film) a day for 6 months, then they cut it to 8mg a day for six months, and then they stop.  That...