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.
Editorial– Issues Threatening the Well-being of Our Patients
Dear TnSAM Members,
I want to express concern about two pressing issues that threaten the well-being of our patients. Recent work by Pinsley et al and the voiced experience of TNSAM members from across Tennessee highlight the difficulty our patients are having when they seek medically assisted treatment. Pinsley et al found that 53% of the time patients presenting to a pharmacy in...
Liquid Soap
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
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....
Parity Law and TN Care Restrictions
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...