Addiction Medicine Needs Scientific Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Patient Outcomes. A Model Related to the City of Hope is Proposed as a Step towards Improving Addiction Outcomes Worldwide

Ed Carels Ba
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Ed Carels Ba: Addiction Medicine Institute, USA

Global Journal of Addiction & Rehabilitation Medicine, 2020, vol. 6, issue 4, 60-62

Abstract: The National Institute of Health (NIH) is a $37 Billion campus dedicated to finding new and improved treatments for all diseases in the USA. In the USA the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) a branch of NIH has dedicated $3 Billion to address the opioid crisis within its HEAL Initiative (Help Eliminate Addiction Long Term). The focus of this work is to fund research on ways to lower Opioid deaths, train nurses, doctors, family members and First Responders on ways to prevent overdoses using Narcan administered intra-nasally.

Keywords: Journal of Addiction; Rehabilitation Medicine; Journal of Addiction & Rehabilitation Medicine; Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine; journal research on addiction; journal of physical therapy; rehabilitation impact factor; physical therapy rehabilitation articles; peer reviewed physical therapy journals; juniper publishers reivew; high impact journals in juniper publishers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.19080/GJARM.2020.06.555695

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