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Free course offers training in prescribing buprenorphine for OUD

Buprenorphine’s an effective tool to help end the drug-overdose epidemic. New online module trains physicians and medical students in how to use it.

Overdose Epidemic
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Raising her hand to help build U.S. addiction-medicine workforce

Learn how this AMA member in Michigan is working to boost substance-use disorder training in medical school and residency.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Bobby Mukkamala, MD, on steps to address the overdose epidemic

AMA's Moving Medicine series features physician voices and achievements. Learn more in this discussion with Bobby Mukkamala, MD, on steps to address the overdose epidemic.

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Public Health
Moving Medicine Video Update
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Time to revamp CDC’s problematic 2016 opioid Rx guideline

The CDC should remove arbitrary thresholds, restore balance and support comprehensive, compassionate care as it revises the guideline later this year.

Overdose Epidemic
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Teaching resident physicians about safe opioid prescribing

Opioids can be an effective treatment for chronic pain, but prescribing them properly requires prudence. Learn more from the AMA.

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AMA report shows evolving, deadlier overdose epidemic

AMA cites need to remove barriers to evidence-based care for patients with pain or a substance use disorder.

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AMA expands online education hub to streamline needs of physicians

AMA Ed Hub™ features new educational content, auto-reporting from partners.

Press Releases
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New York internal medicine physician elected to the AMA Board of Trustees

An internist with a focus on geriatrics and palliative care in rural upstate New York, Dr. Madejski grew up in a family of pharmacists in Buffalo.

Press Releases
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AMA touts pathways to train more addiction medicine physicians

Only one in 10 patients with a substance-use disorder receives treatment. New pathways give doctors a chance to become addiction medicine specialists to fill that treatment gap.

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