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In last week’s ASAM Weekly (04 June 2019), Dr. Raymond Anton and co-authors replied to a guest editorial by Dr. Stuart Gitlow, in reference to a Clinical Psychiatry News 21 February report from the December 2018 meeting of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP). As is customary in an exchange of letters, Dr. Gitlow’s response is provided below, in conclusion:

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(Dr. Stuart Gitlow’s guest editorial, titled “End-point in AUD Treatment” and posted 26 February 2019, followed comments reported from Dr. Raymond Anton and colleagues in the December 2018 AAAP meeting, in Clinical Psychiatry News dated 21 February.) Response to Dr. Gitlow regarding use of the WHO risk drinking reduction to guide medication-based treatments. In a recent guest editorial, Dr. Stuart Gitlow expresses some concerns about a proposed new AUD clinical trial efficacy outcome measure based upon reductions in World Health Organization (WHO) risk drinking levels. The editorial suggests more broadly that “reductions in alcohol use” are not an adequate measure of recovery from AUD, as they may reflect only a reduction in symptoms (that is alcohol related pathology).

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For the years that I have been with the Weekly, I have been grateful to the ASAM staff leadership for observing Memorial Day. It is one day that I’ve always taken more seriously than those associated explicitly with other historical events. Mention of it here has particular significance, given the long association of alcohol use with military service.

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Even for this periodical, the variety of topics included today is unusual. The We Rise project in the Los Angeles, alcohol use in pregnancy, the impact of psychostimulants on opioid use and mortality rates, alcoholism and emotional responsiveness, major national policy initiatives, and the adverse effects of early discontinuation of opioids in those on long-term management are among these. A week seldom goes by without this periodical including a piece that reflects the concerns of physicians about governmental restrictions placed on either opioid analgesia or pharmacologic management of opioid addiction; so noting that frequency leads to the following overview.

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Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard, in last week’s issue of Filter, an online journal emphasizing public policy in the realm of drug use and addiction, describes Congressional initiatives relating to buprenorphine prescribing limits. Before opening the link, please know that while Filter has several intelligently written and apparently well-researched articles displayed, it is of uncertain provenance: no editorial or financial support information, no editorial objectives, no history.

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All around us during this last month of spring are the phenomena of emergence: graduations, convocations, celebrations. Students complete some phase of their education and are reminded by high-minded pedants that they are just about to enter another phase of it.

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Decades ago, as an older resident in a second career, I met with a 17-year-old Chinese-Hawaiian-Filipino male in the emergency room of a large acute-care hospital. He will be “Kyle”. He was agitated and acknowledged intense anxiety. The basis for his evaluation was his inability to communicate coherently, plus his acknowledgment that he was experiencing auditory hallucinations.

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Nick – Dr. Athanasiou – prompted me to recall that 4/20, or April 20th, is the date celebrated by many in honor of cannabis consumption. Bracketed by Good Friday and by Easter, it would seem an unlikely competitor for the attentions of the Christian faithful, and we will similarly Passover other religious references. But with the nation's attention so preoccupied with how best to become intoxicated, “420” and the legal status of marijuana seemed a right topic for attention.

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On Friday 05 April, the Annual ASAM Scientific Conference included two plenary sessions titled, “Big Ideas.” At the latter of these were Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); and Dr. George Koob, Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Both provided brief presentations to serve as take-off points for a colloquium hosted by Dr. Kelly Clark, then President of ASAM.

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Journey 1: The Staff, Senior Editor, and Editor-in-Chief of the ASAM Weeklyare honored to announce the digest’s bronze award in the category of best E-Newsletter, from The American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE). We have shared the task leading to this point for three years. Journey 2:

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