Pelago, a virtual clinic for substance use treatment, launched a contingency management program, in which members are rewarded for healthy behaviors like engaging in treatment, the company announced ...
More than 48 million Americans have struggled with a substance use disorder (SUD) over the last 12 months. Despite decades of research and treatment interventions, relapse rates remain stubbornly high ...
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Clyde Davis battled a methamphetamine and heroin addiction for over nine years. He tried various treatment programs, but none worked for him before he reached his insurance maximum and was forced to ...
Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The Biden administration on Wednesday eliminated a major barrier for health providers seeking to offer contingency management, a form of ...
On March 2, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published Advisory Opinion 22-04, approving a program under which the requestor provides digital ...
Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015) had watched friends and family members struggle with addiction. He’d seen some of them go to treatment, and he’d seen many of them relapse. He didn’t understand why the ...