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In Case You Haven't Heard
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32106
Subject(s) - buprenorphine , administration (probate law) , law enforcement , addiction , haven , conviction , law , political science , psychology , criminology , medicine , opioid , psychiatry , receptor , mathematics , combinatorics
Last spring, the office of Stuart Gitlow, M.D., former president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, was raided by the FBI (see ADAW , June 11). He didn't and doesn't know why. But they took all of his computers and records. The raids occurred at about the same time the Drug Enforcement Administration raided the offices of Watauga Recovery Centers (see ADAW , June 11), but that led to the conviction of a nurse practitioner (see ADAW , Aug. 20). The good news is that Gitlow, one of the country's most articulate proponents of office‐based opioid treatment with buprenorphine, is still practicing: The progressive state of Rhode Island told him he better keep practicing and not abandon his patients. “My addiction practice is open and I'm seeing patients,” he told ADAW last week.