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Little data is collected on pregnant women who are incarcerated. Even less is available for those with addiction ...

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During rotations, fellows will participate in integrated visits with health psychology, addiction medicine, and adult psychiatry to evaluate long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain while promoting ...

A researcher posed as a case manager and called treatment providers across the city to figure out how easy it is to get ...

An artificial intelligence (AI)-driven screening tool successfully identified hospitalized adults at risk for opioid use ...

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With the opioid epidemic and the subsequent rise of cases of substance use and mental illness caused by the COVID pandemic, addiction medicine has increasingly become an integral part of medical ...

NIH-supported clinical trial shows AI tool as effective as healthcare providers in generating referrals to addiction specialists.

M.D., chief of child and adolescent psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Addiction Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.