Addiction Medicine: Closing the Gap between Science and Practice

 Professional staffing requirements to assure that clinical staff are adequately qualified to implement evidence-based practice ...

A significant number of states exempt state agency-run programs (e.g., in the justice and welfare systems) from licensure. A nat ...

All opioid maintenance therapy facilities are required by federal law to obtain certification from the U.S. Department of Health ...

and facilities.^169 Joint Commission accreditation is widely accepted by state licensing agencies toward the fulfillment of lice ...

 A wide range of “qualified providers”* (e.g., addiction counselors, social workers, nurses) who may offer and/or supervise tre ...

certified or licensed as addiction/mental health professionals.^183 CASA Columbia’s survey of directors* of addiction treatment ...

education or training in addiction science, and there are no accepted standards of practice that apply across facilities and pro ...

methadone, the initial dose cannot exceed 30 milligrams.^203 Accreditation Service Requirements. Accreditation organizations del ...

processes and outcomes as ways of assuring quality.^208 Accreditation of health care facilities tends to focus on structural mea ...

supports and other services.* 213 SAPTBG is a major source of funding for state-run or state- funded treatment programs.^214 SAM ...

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Chapter X The Evidence-Practice Gap The prevention and reduction of the risky use of addictive substances and the treatment of a ...

and cutting-edge interventions, the reigning paradigm in the health community for addressing risky substance use and addiction i ...

these practices.^6 These include primary care medical offices, dental offices, pharmacies, school-based health clinics, mental h ...

recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).^16 Another study found that while physicians knew ...

smoker’s likelihood of being able to quit.^32 Something as simple as keeping NRT products behind the pharmacy counter where cust ...

Assessment, Stabilization and Acute Treatment ........................................................ Despite the existence of ...

treatment beyond detoxification typically is a medical necessity.^57 In 2008,* only 12.6 percent of discharges from detoxificati ...

programs smoke--a rate more than three times that in the general population.^73 Pharmaceutical Treatments are Underutilized. A k ...

generalizability of research-based efficacy findings to different patient populations.^86 Although one study found that each add ...