Just a decade ago, beds in addiction treatment centers were rarely filled with patients struggling with marijuana abuse. The majority of patients were people battling alcohol or opioid addiction and most were adults. But times have changed. The number of people seeking treatment for marijuana addiction has...
As the U.S. Surgeon General’s recent report on addiction highlights, the United States faces a serious opioid epidemic that shows no signs of abating.1 In 2015, more than 13 million Americans reported nonmedical use of opioids in the previous year, and about 2.5 million of...
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) today announced its intention to place the active materials in the kratom plant into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act in order to avoid an imminent hazard to public safety. Mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine are found in kratom, which is...
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) announced today the recognition of Addiction Medicine as a new subspecialty. The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM), a Member Board of ABMS, sponsored the application for the new field to be a multispecialty subspecialty – meaning that physicians certified by...