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AMA backs update to CDC opioid prescribing guidelines

The AMA is urging the CDC to remove arbitrary thresholds, restore balance and support comprehensive, compassionate care as it revises the guidelines.

Press Releases
Pharmacist holding a packaged prescription
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When arbitrary policies collide with patient care

Correcting a national pharmacy chain’s misinterpretation of CDC opioid-prescribing guidelines turned into a six-month headache for an Illinois doctor.

Behavioral Health
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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of July 12, 2021

In the news: Johnson & Johnson vaccine and Guillain-Barré, COVID infections doubled in three weeks, CDC reports 29% increase in overdose deaths, additional COVID shots for immunocompromised.

Publications & Newsletters
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July 16, 2021: State Advocacy Update

Rhode Island is first state in nation to support pilot harm reduction center and more in the latest State Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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Rhode Island is first state to support pilot harm reduction center

AMA strongly supports efforts to reduce drug-related overdose and death.

Press Releases
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July 2, 2021: State Advocacy Update

Colorado regulation will measure SUD network adequacy and more in the latest State Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
Bryan Alexander, PharmD; Alëna Balasanova, MD; VaKara Meyer Karre, MD; Nico Cortes-Penfield, MD
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How one Nebraska addiction psychiatrist advocates for her patients

An addiction psychiatry consultation-liaison service is becoming an increasingly important part of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s culture.

Behavioral Health
Open doors of a cell in a correctional facility or prison.
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Require access to Rx for opioid-use disorder in prisons, jails

Delegates seek to ensure that evidence-based treatment for substance-use disorders, along with social support, is available in correctional facilities and upon release.

Population Health
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AMA calls for access to substance use disorder treatment in prisons, jails

Access to medication treatment in correctional facilities is not only protected by the law, but it is essential.

Press Releases