Misc. informational materials
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This web page provides brief recommendations for monitoring patients undergoing buprenorphine treatment using liver function tests, and the proper actions to take if a patient develops hepatitis.
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PCSS Guidance
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This webinar, presented by Cathy A. Gallagher, Associate Chief, Liaison and Policy Section of the DEA, explains rules and regulations regarding DEA requirements for buprenorphine treatment providers.
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PCSS-Buprenorphine (1 vote)
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This website provides a "Drug Interactions Checker" that explains drug interactions. Furthermore, the significance level of the drug interaction is classified as major, moderate, or minor drug interactions. You can also check for food/lifestyle and disease interactions.
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Drugs.com (Drugs Information Online)
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) provides this website so that physicians can improve the deliver and financing of prevention, treatment and recovery support services to patients.
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
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- General information - opioid addiction
- General information - buprenorphine
- Screening and diagnosis
- Induction and dosing
- Rules, regulations and recordkeeping
- Physician and staff training
- Addiction
- Adolescents
- Dependence
- Pharmacotherapy
- Screening
- Side effects
- Tolerance
- Withdrawal
- Misc. informational materials
- Patient education materials
- Becoming waivered
- Experienced prescriber
- Just became waivered
- Need to refer
- Setting up a practice
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The California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) website provides information and materials for buprenorphine treatment providers, including screening tools and sample consent and patient agreement forms, and provides links to other helpful resources.
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California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM)
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- General information - buprenorphine
- Getting a waiver/setting up your practice
- Initial patient contact
- Screening and diagnosis
- Rules, regulations and recordkeeping
- Physician and staff training
- Addiction
- Assessment
- Confidentiality
- Consent
- Contract
- COWS
- Recordkeeping
- Screening
- Training
- Waiver
- Misc. informational materials
- Becoming waivered
- Just became waivered
- Need to refer
- Setting up a practice
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PCSS-B is a free mentoring service funded by SAMHSA and coordinated by ASAM. The PCSS-B can match you with a physician mentor from your local area with whom you can discuss practice and treatment issues with him/her.
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Physician Clinical Support System (PCSS)
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This clinical guidance provides information on billing services for office-based opioid treatment, including CPT codes for both psychiatrists and primary care providers.
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Physician Clinical Support System (PCSS)
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This Web page provides information about HIPAA and patients' rights.
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Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
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This book presents an historical overview of heroin use in the USA, as well as articles by experts in the field which focus on current developments and emerging trends in prevention, treatment, distribution and consumption. Filling a void in the literature on what is known about the `new' heroin users, this volume also updates the reader on the status of aging heroin-addicted populations who initiated use of the drug prior to the `age of cocaine'.
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SAGE Publications
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This information brief discusses the abuse of prescription drugs by young people, commonly abused prescription drugs, and diversion of said drugs.
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National Drug Intelligence Center
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