The Surgeon General's Facing Addiction report: An historic document for health care |
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| Authors: | Sharon Levy J. Paul Seale Victoria A. Osborne Kevin L. Kraemer Daniel P. Alford Jeffrey Baxter |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USAsharon.levy@childrens.harvard.edu;3. Mercer University School of Medicine Family Health Center, Macon, Georgia, USA;4. Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA;5. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA;6. Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;7. University of Massachusetts Medical School, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTThe publication of Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health presents an historic moment not only for the field of addiction medicine, but also for the United States as a nation. The Board of Directors of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA), on behalf of our organization, would like to express our appreciation of the efforts of Dr. Vivek Murthy and the Surgeon General's Office to publish the first surgeon general's report covering substance misuse and substance use disorders. |
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| Keywords: | Substance use addiction substance use disorder |
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