New York Society of Addiction Medicine
Opioids are a class of medications and substances that primarily affect the mu opioid receptor, in the central nervous system. Opioids comprise natural opiates and synthetic and semi-synthetic opioids. Opioids can have a medical purpose for the treatment of pain, like prescribed opioid medications. Opioids can also have a non-medical purpose such as heroin, a substance that can be ingested, inhaled, or injected.
September 25, 2019 by NYSAM
Two new Substance Use Disorder Treatment Guidelines have just been released and posted on by the AIDS Institute Clinical Guidelines…
August 12, 2019 by Jasmine Landry
In a piece published in JAMA that discussed last year’s film Beautiful Boy, Dr. Abigail Zuger endorsed the sentiment of…
July 30, 2019 by NYSAM
ASAM Board Member, Dr. Margaret Jarvis, testified in front of a Congressional Roundtable on the nation’s response to the “third…
July 23, 2019 by Edwin Salsitz
Language Matters We have witnessed remarkable progress in the understanding of the disease of addiction over the past two decades.…
July 16, 2019 by NYSAM
NYSAM board members Dr. Melissa Weimer and Dr. Jeffrey Selzer together with Dr. Daniel Schatz, adjunct assistant professor in the…
April 12, 2019 by Daniel Schatz, MD
The New York State Department of Health, the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (OASAS), and the New York State Buprenorphine Working Group wrote a Best Practice document focused on misconceptions related to the use of buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). NYSAM Board Member, Dr. Dan Schatz, wrote a summary of the document reviewing five misconceptions of buprenorphine treatment.