How The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act Helps Fix a 15-Year-Old Issue with Buprenorphine
Related: Senate Passes Opioid Crisis Response Act – Here's What's in It We wrote in the fall about the U.S. House of Representatives' SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, or H.R.6. H.R.6 would go on to become the Opioid Crisis…
AZZLY Rize™ Prevents Death by a Thousand Clicks
Why We Dedicated Ourselves to Make a Better EHR In spring 2019, Fortune and Kaiser Health News joint-published a long-form investigative article titled "Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong." The 9,000-word critique on the medical…
WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURE – Make Counseling and Therapeutic Intervention Mandatory for Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Funding
AZZLY joins the Behavioral Health Association of Providers (BHAP) in asking you to support the behavioral health industry by signing this petition. This petition will be delivered to President Trump, the Senate, and the House of Representatives and would urge…
Medical Marijuana: Can Cannabis Cancel the Opioid Epidemic?
An often dismissed option in the struggle to address opioid addiction is the use of medical marijuana. Though usage of the cannabis plant remains controversial in the United States, several studies indicate it may have value in addressing opioid addiction,…
AZZLY Rize’s DrFirst Integrated Tool Allows You to Access State PDMP Data in the E-Prescribing Workflow
AZZLY® partner DrFirst announced recently that their Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) system EPCS Gold now includes integrated availability of state PDMP (Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs) systems. When E-Prescribing, clinicians can save time by viewing patients' PDMP drug history…
Medication-Assisted Treatment is on the Rise, but Can Facilities Keep Up?
As the opioid epidemic in the United States continues to affect millions, medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, has risen as one of the leading options in treating substance use disorders. The method can be used to treat a number of substance…
NAATP Webinar Series Will Cover LegitScript Certification for Treatment Centers
On November 29th, a webinar series organized by the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) will cover the Google Ads landscape before and after Google began requiring treatment centers to be certified by LegitScript in April. As NAATP put…
NIDAMED’s “Science to Medicine” Series Offers Crash Course on Medication-Assisted Treatment
This September, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) released an online series titled "Science to Medicine" as an educational piece on medication-assisted treatment. The series, which is part of NIDA's physicians' outreach initiative, NIDAMED, allows clinicians and practices to…
Surgeon General Releases “Spotlight on Opioids” Document
Last Thursday, Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, the U.S. Surgeon General, released Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Spotlight on Opioids as part of his ongoing effort in educating the public about substance use disorders. The document, 40 pages long…
