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More Effective Communication During Inpatient Addiction Treatment

Jun 2, 2023 by agalloway

The article, “More Effective Communication During Inpatient Addiction Treatment” has been
published in SAj in Volume 44 Issue 1-2.

In this commentary, the authors argue that historical approaches to inpatient addiction treatment favoring more confrontational, expert-centric, or paternalistic undercurrents continue to permeate the hidden curriculum in medical training. These older approaches unfortunately continue to inform how many trainees learn to approach inpatient addiction treatment. The authors go on to provide several examples of how clinical challenges specific to inpatient addiction treatment can be addressed by employing principles of motivational interviewing, harm reduction, and psychodynamic thought.

In the AUTHORS’ OWN WORDS, they relate the importance of their work:

“Gaps in medical education—including limited exposure to evidence-based approaches to patient engagement using motivational interviewing and harm reduction principles—leave some medical providers without clear guidance on how to effectively work with this vulnerable population.”

“Here we address several common clinical challenges encountered by medical providers on inpatient psychiatric services caring for patients with substance-related and addictive disorders. Though our observations certainly will apply to other clinical services (eg, inpatient general medicine and ambulatory psychiatry), we have developed this commentary with a focus on the inpatient addiction care setting both because it is where we have made these observations most frequently, and because of the intense biopsychosocial instability that we believe demands heightened attention to effective communication from us as providers.”

Filed Under: SAj Blog, Uncategorized

Exciting SAj News!

May 23, 2023 by agalloway

AMERSA is pleased to announce that we have partnered with Sage Publishing as the new publisher of the Substance Abuse journal (SAj.) Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and a growing suite of library products and services. 

The new website for the journal is journals.sagepub.com/home/saj. AMERSA members can access the journal for free via amersa.org/journal-home. All members will receive an email with instructions on how to access our new members portal where member access for the journal is housed. Please contact Adrienne Galloway at adrienne@amersa.org if you have any questions.

Journal Title Change! The AMERSA Board of Directors and the SAj Editorial Team has long recognized that the title of the journal (Substance Abuse) includes pejorative language which can negatively impact the way society perceives persons with substance use and substance use disorder treatments. Thus, we have secured the name Substance Use & Addiction Journal (SAj) with the goal of formally implementing the change with the first issue of 2024.

The 2022 Annual Conference commentary and the presented abstracts are now available here.

Filed Under: SAj Blog, Uncategorized

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