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. 2015 Jul 28:351:h4027.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.h4027.

Training in addiction medicine should be standardised and scaled up

J Klimas

Training in addiction medicine should be standardised and scaled up

J Klimas. BMJ. .

Abstract

Most health systems lack sufficient doctors trained in addiction medicine to reduce the public health consequences of this increasing societal problem, writes J Klimas

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: I have read and understood the BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following interests: this work was partly supported by funding from the Canada Research Chairs programme through a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Inner City Medicine grant; by the US National Institutes of Health (R25DA037756); and by the ELEVATE grant: Irish Research Council International Career Development Fellowship, co-funded by Marie Curie Actions (ELEVATEPD/2014/6); and the Health Research Board of Ireland grant (HRA-HSR-2012-14).

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