Addiction Medicine: Closing the Gap between Science and Practice

Nutrition and Exercise Are Not Integrated into Addiction Treatment. Although good nutrition and exercise are important component ...

continues to be seen as an intractable condition largely resistant to treatment. Interventions Do Not Adequately Address Co-occu ...

health settings who smoke may be even less likely to receive the smoking cessation services they need.^123 Psychiatrists may esc ...

Examples of the Evidence-Practice Gap in Addiction Treatment throughout History The use of addiction treatments that are not gro ...

Barriers to Closing the Evidence-Practice Gap ............................................................... America’s approach ...

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addiction treatment providers to have.* 155 CASA Columbia’s survey also found that only 11.3 percent of program directors and 8. ...

Most Addiction Treatment Providers Do Not Adopt Evidence-Based Practices.* Many addiction treatment providers address addiction ...

One study found that support staff*--who make up 24 percent of the treatment provider workforce in the National Institute on Dru ...

These factors, however, are not sufficient to justify the lack of medical attention to a disease affecting 16 percent of the pop ...

psychiatry residency positions available than there is demand for them. Although a survey of psychiatry residents found that mos ...

trained in it and it is considered to be a low priority in already overloaded curricula.^217 Although pharmacists who engage in ...

versions of drugs already approved by the Food and Drug Administration meant that investments in innovative new medications were ...

Efforts to assure quality treatment for addiction have proven highly fallible, with many barriers standing in the way of adequat ...

Inadequate Performance and Outcome Measurement. Government and private funders and insurance companies increasingly are pressing ...

No Overarching Organizing Body for Addiction Science and Treatment ................. Unlike other major health conditions, there ...

Many of these efforts, however, have been aimed at shoring up and maintaining a separate system of addiction treatment outside o ...

 Efforts by government agencies to promote physician education and training in addiction science and addiction treatment and up ...

other drug use. The performance measurement sets related to alcohol and other drugs include screening, brief interventions, trea ...

Chapter XI Recommendations and Next Steps As this report has documented, addiction is a complex brain disease and the risky use ...