Recommended Use of Terminology in Addiction Medicine

Affiliations

¹ Chair, Department of Community Health Sciences (CHS), Professor of Community Health Sciences and Medicine, Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, the Grayken Center for Addiction, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA (RS), Mental Health Service, VA Medical Center, Clinical Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Population and Public Health Sciences, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, OH (SCM), Professor of Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Public Health, Director, Program in Addiction Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (DAF), Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Addiction Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (RNR).

Editorial

Richard Saitz et al. J Addict Med. 2021 Jan-Feb.

. 2021 Jan-Feb;15(1):3-7.

doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000673.

¹ Chair, Department of Community Health Sciences (CHS), Professor of Community Health Sciences and Medicine, Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, the Grayken Center for Addiction, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA (RS), Mental Health Service, VA Medical Center, Clinical Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Population and Public Health Sciences, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, OH (SCM), Professor of Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Public Health, Director, Program in Addiction Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (DAF), Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Addiction Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (RNR).

No abstract available

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