The opioid epidemic: What is the physician’s responsibility?

Nation’s drug overdose epidemic requires new policy focus

How to use motivational interviewing to improve addiction care

How patients’ trauma perpetuates the nation’s overdose epidemic

Public Health

AMA COVID-19 daily video update: Ways to integrate behavioral health into your practice

The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. See daily video updates on how the AMA is fighting COVID-19 by discussing the Behavioral Health Initiative (BHI) Collaborative.

AMA Statements

AMA statement on Justice Department settlement with Purdue Pharma

Any settlement should be used exclusively for data collection, research, education, overdose prevention, stigma elimination, and evidence-based treatment.

Opioids

Physicians’ progress toward ending the nation’s drug overdose and death epidemic

Physicians’ progress toward ending the nation’s drug overdose and death epidemic.

Press Releases

AMA applauds California’s groundbreaking mental health reform law

New law holds insurers accountable to evidence-based treatment guidelines for coverage of mental health and addiction treatment services.

AMA in the News

AMA in the News: August 2020

Read media highlights mentioning the American Medical Association for August 2020.

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Health Equity

How to tackle health inequities with science, data during pandemic

Longstanding inequities have been magnified during COVID-19. There are ways to set things right for path ahead.

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Ethics

The opioid epidemic: What is the physician’s responsibility?

With the growing opioid crisis, pain management and approaches to prescribing have taken on a new ethical component. Learn more from the AMA Journal of Ethics.

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Opioids

How patients’ trauma perpetuates the nation’s overdose epidemic

To end the drug overdose epidemic, experts say to take holistic view, focus on preventing overdoses in general and avoid fixating on a specific drug.

End the epidemic

AMA membership means you’re actively fighting to end the opioid crisis. Help us build a strong, nationwide program of comprehensive pain care to help reverse this epidemic.

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Essential Tools & Resources

End the overdose epidemic

AMA Opioid Task Force 2019 Progress Report

How to administer naloxone

Co-prescribing naloxone

AMA Insurance

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