Membership Moves Medicine™
An AMA membership means you are actively fighting to end the opioid epidemic.
End the opioid epidemic
Promote physician leadership to end this national epidemic.
Access educational resources
Ensure you have the education and training on effective, evidence-based treatment.
Stand with the AMA
Support and advocate for comprehensive care for patients in pain and those with a substance use disorder.
Amplifying physician best practices for overdose prevention and treatment
AMA members fighting to do more for their patients
- The AMA Opioid Task Force brings more physician leadership to bear on this national epidemic.
- Greater emphasis on overdose prevention and treatment to help reduce opioid-related mortality.
- Education and training to offer effective treatment plans for patients with pain and substance use disorders.
Enhanced education on effective, evidence-based prescribing and treatment
Opioid education has led to:
- More than 118,000 physicians to complete courses on opioid prescribing, pain management and addiction
- More than 11,000 physicians to become newly certified to provide office-based medication assisted treatment
- From 2013-2016, opioid prescriptions decreasing nationally by 14.6%—every state in the nation saw a decrease
AMA members are leading the effort to reverse the opioid epidemic
Join now to take action
Work with other physicians, insurers, drug manufacturers and the government to support evidence-based treatment plans and public policies at the national and state levels.