connecting providers with tools and information to foster professional development and the confidence to treat patients who have substance use disorder (SUD)
Guidance:
sharing evidence-based practice and providing opportunities to learn from colleagues when difficulties emerge or practices evolve.
Education:
offering accredited medical education for the health professions to promote exceptional care to patients.
Helping medical professionals provide HIGH-QUALITY, COMPASSIONATE CARE to people who use substances
“When I talk with other family physicians specifically, I say [I don’t only practice] addiction medicine, I’m a family physician, and this is family medicine…this is something that is so important and so integral and can really make a big difference for both patients at the individual level as well as communities.”
Dr. Dave O’Gurek, Interim Chair of Family and Community Medicine at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University