The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued several updates to a patient privacy regulation known as Part 2, which limits sharing of substance abuse data. The finalized rule, posted ...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (“SAMHSA”), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), recently finalized its changes to the ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2006;63(8):712-714. Drug information specialists are pharmacists whose primary responsibility is the provision of drug information. As with any specialty, formalized training ...

It is National Drug Facts Week (November 8-14), and we would like to help clarify some myths about drugs, based on the neuroscience research. How common is drug use in young people? While drug use is ...

HHS has finalized a rule that aims to make it easier for insurers and providers to share substance abuse patients' data with other parties that are involved in providing and paying for that person's ...

Getting a new prescription can be overwhelming: medication schedules, foods to eat or avoid, interactions between different drugs. Having all of these details in accessible, printed documents keeps ...

Of the 151 centers that were sent surveys, 119 responded, yielding an overall response rate of 79%. Of the 119 respondents, 16 (13%) notified us that they did not have a DIC, 2 (2%) were solely poison ...