It’s time to measure addiction recovery rates, not just addiction rates
By ROBERT D. ASHFORD, OLIVIA PENNELLE, and BRENT CANODE AUGUST 30, 2018 Lost among the headlines of opioid addiction and overdose deaths are the many quiet [...]
Event registration opens today for National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week®
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) announced today that event registration is open for [...]
FDA gives drugmakers new ways to prove opioid disorder treatments work
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 6, 2018 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday expanded the outcome measures drugmakers can use to demonstrate the benefits [...]
Journal commentary addresses role of dentists in opioid crisis
Addressing the vital role of dentists in helping to alleviate the opioid crisis is the subject of a commentary, publishing today in the Journal of [...]
Shawn Moody, Karen Vachon, Amy Volk & Lauen LePage Visit ENSO Recovery
Shawn Moody, Karen Vachon, Amy Volk & Lauen LePage visited ENSO Recovery last Tuesday (July 10), to learn about medication assisted treatment and the [...]
Study casts doubt on effectiveness of e-cigs for smoking cessation
A study found no evidence that smokers who used e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) in the United States were more likely to [...]
ENSO Recovery Ramps Up for Residential Medication Assisted Recovery
ENSO Recovery, a substance use disorder treatment program that currently operates outpatient medication assisted programs in Sanford, Portland and Westbrook is excited to announce [...]
2018 Avenir award recipient to study how social networks affect people who use drugs
A proposal to study how drug users who are part of social networks influence their own communities has been given the 2018 Avenir award for [...]
New clinician screening tool available for substance use
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network has unveiled a new scientifically validated, online screening tool designed to assess a patient’s risk [...]
Training module now available for acute pain management in hospitalized adults
A case-based clinician training module designed for the evaluation of acute pain and opioid management for adults is now available through the Centers of Excellence [...]