Prioritizing Addiction Medicine: Key to Closing Gaps in Addiction Treatment

The Doctor Weighs In
6 min readNov 9, 2020

By Forrest Arthur, M.D.

A new addiction medicine fellowship aims to expand the number of addiction specialists to close gaps in addiction treatment.

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America’s opioid addiction problem began, in my opinion, over 30 years ago in what many consider an unlikely place: America’s medical schools. Prolonged anxiety…

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