Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Policy Forum Aug 2020 Ethical Imperatives to Overcome Stigma Against People With Substance Use Disorders VADM Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH and Nora D. Volkow, MD Responding to opioid use disorder as a US public health crisis requires all clinicians to recognize addiction as a treatable disease. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E702-708. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.702. Policy Forum Aug 2020 How Structural Violence, Prohibition, and Stigma Have Paralyzed North American Responses to Opioid Overdose Mark Tyndall, MD, ScD and Zoë Dodd, MES Driven by toxic, unpredictable, unregulated supply, drug overdose deaths are rampant. Policies that support the war on drugs have to change to be helpful. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E723-728. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.723. Policy Forum Mar 2023 What Should Be Clinicians’ Roles in Regulatory Assessment of Prospective Interventions’ Risks of Exacerbating Inequity? Anushka Bhaskar and Daniel Carpenter, PhD When regulatory decisions express overconfidence, one risk is that the costliness or misinformation will exacerbate health inequity. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(3):E204-209. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.204. Policy Forum Sep 2022 Roles of Environmental Services Workers’ Wages and Status in Patient Safety David Sine, DBioethics and Lloyd Duplechan This article offers a risk management standpoint on environmental services as a mission-critical function of any health care organization. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(9):E876-882. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.876. Policy Forum Mar 2005 Confidentiality and Consent in Adolescent Substance Abuse: An Update Melissa Weddle, MD, MPH and Patricia K. Kokotailo, MD, MPH Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(3):239-243. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.3.pfor1-0503. Policy Forum Jun 2004 Patient Safety and Patients' Rights Ross D. Silverman, JD, MPH Virtual Mentor. 2004;6(6):279-281. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2004.6.6.pfor2-0406. Policy Forum Jun 2003 Diversity and the Road to the "Land of Best Care" Lonnie R. Bristow, MD Virtual Mentor. 2003;5(6):225-227. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2003.5.6.pfor1-0306. Policy Forum Sep 2016 Shared Responsibility: Massachusetts Legislators, Physicians, and An Act Relative to Substance Use Treatment, Education, and Prevention Meghan Rudder, MD, Lulu Tsao, MD, and Helen E. Jack Massachusetts legislation limiting supply of first-time opioid prescriptions creates opportunity for interprofessional collaboration on drug policy. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):950-959. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.pfor2-1609. Policy Forum Aug 2020 Advocacy and Action to End the Opioid Epidemic by the AMA Opioid Task Force Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA and Bobby Mukkamala, MD Six recommendations focus on specific actions to help reverse the nation’s opioid epidemic. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E718-722. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.718. Policy Forum Apr 2023 Do Clinics in Meat and Poultry Plants Endanger Workers? Debbie Berkowitz, Anna D. Goff, MA, HEC-C, Kathleen Marie Fagan, MD, MPH, and Monica L. Gerrek, PhD Most meat and poultry plants have on-site workplace clinics where workers are required to obtain care for work-related injuries or illnesses. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E278-286. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.278. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next › Last page Last »
Policy Forum Aug 2020 Ethical Imperatives to Overcome Stigma Against People With Substance Use Disorders VADM Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH and Nora D. Volkow, MD Responding to opioid use disorder as a US public health crisis requires all clinicians to recognize addiction as a treatable disease. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E702-708. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.702.
Policy Forum Aug 2020 How Structural Violence, Prohibition, and Stigma Have Paralyzed North American Responses to Opioid Overdose Mark Tyndall, MD, ScD and Zoë Dodd, MES Driven by toxic, unpredictable, unregulated supply, drug overdose deaths are rampant. Policies that support the war on drugs have to change to be helpful. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E723-728. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.723.
Policy Forum Mar 2023 What Should Be Clinicians’ Roles in Regulatory Assessment of Prospective Interventions’ Risks of Exacerbating Inequity? Anushka Bhaskar and Daniel Carpenter, PhD When regulatory decisions express overconfidence, one risk is that the costliness or misinformation will exacerbate health inequity. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(3):E204-209. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.204.
Policy Forum Sep 2022 Roles of Environmental Services Workers’ Wages and Status in Patient Safety David Sine, DBioethics and Lloyd Duplechan This article offers a risk management standpoint on environmental services as a mission-critical function of any health care organization. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(9):E876-882. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.876.
Policy Forum Mar 2005 Confidentiality and Consent in Adolescent Substance Abuse: An Update Melissa Weddle, MD, MPH and Patricia K. Kokotailo, MD, MPH Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(3):239-243. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.3.pfor1-0503.
Policy Forum Jun 2004 Patient Safety and Patients' Rights Ross D. Silverman, JD, MPH Virtual Mentor. 2004;6(6):279-281. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2004.6.6.pfor2-0406.
Policy Forum Jun 2003 Diversity and the Road to the "Land of Best Care" Lonnie R. Bristow, MD Virtual Mentor. 2003;5(6):225-227. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2003.5.6.pfor1-0306.
Policy Forum Sep 2016 Shared Responsibility: Massachusetts Legislators, Physicians, and An Act Relative to Substance Use Treatment, Education, and Prevention Meghan Rudder, MD, Lulu Tsao, MD, and Helen E. Jack Massachusetts legislation limiting supply of first-time opioid prescriptions creates opportunity for interprofessional collaboration on drug policy. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):950-959. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.pfor2-1609.
Policy Forum Aug 2020 Advocacy and Action to End the Opioid Epidemic by the AMA Opioid Task Force Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA and Bobby Mukkamala, MD Six recommendations focus on specific actions to help reverse the nation’s opioid epidemic. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E718-722. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.718.
Policy Forum Apr 2023 Do Clinics in Meat and Poultry Plants Endanger Workers? Debbie Berkowitz, Anna D. Goff, MA, HEC-C, Kathleen Marie Fagan, MD, MPH, and Monica L. Gerrek, PhD Most meat and poultry plants have on-site workplace clinics where workers are required to obtain care for work-related injuries or illnesses. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E278-286. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.278.