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Digital

E-prescribing controlled substances: Here’s why the clicks add up

70% of physicians e-prescribe, but only 20% can e-prescribe controlled substances. The AMA is asking EHR vendors for action to help change that.

Opioids

Opioid epidemic: Huge funding boost needed to close treatment gap

Administrative and insurance barriers continue to block access to treatment, AMA President-elect Susan R. Bailey, MD, tells Congress.

Sustainability

Share, Listen, Learn Series

The AMA's monthly webinars—Share, Listen, Learn—provide instruction on topics to excel in practice transformation.
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Opioids

Get rid of market barriers to appropriate pain management

Health insurers, pharmacy benefit management companies and others are making it harder for physicians to provide appropriate care to patients living with pain.

Press Releases

AMA passes opioid policies to end barriers to non-opioid treatment

The AMA approved several opioid-related policies intended to put the focus of pain treatment back on patients and away from arbitrary third-party controls.
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Opioids

Lifesaving naloxone should be available almost everywhere

Publicly available naloxone rescue boxes could allow bystanders to save the lives of people experiencing opioid overdoses.
Photo of AMA President Patrice A. Harris, MD, giving her inauguration speech at the 2019 HOD Annual Meeting,

Annual Meeting

New AMA president: Time for physicians to create history together

In ascending to one of medicine’s highest offices, new AMA president Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, has completed an unlikely journey.

Press Releases

Patrice A. Harris, M.D., inaugurated as 174th president of the AMA

Patrice A. Harris, M.D., M.A., was sworn in today as the 174th president of the AMA. Dr. Harris is the first African-American woman to hold the office.

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