Substance use care has changed quickly, and placement decisions need to keep up. The ASAM Criteria Fourth Edition updates the way clinicians, programs, courts, payers, and care teams think about assessment, risk, level of care, medication, and harm reduction. The slide set below gives the visual summary. The written guide that follows explains the key points in plain language for readers who prefer more context than a slide can hold. This article is for general education only. It is not...

Public safety and public health did not always know how to sit at the same table. For many years, addiction was treated mainly as a criminal justice problem, while clinicians saw the same people cycling through crisis, withdrawal, relapse, illness, arrest, and court. The systems touched the same lives, but they often worked from different maps. The late Honorable Judge Seth Norman helped change that map. In Davidson County, Tennessee, Judge Norman became a foundational figure in drug court...

The title of the keynote could have been reduced to three words: hope, healing, and justice. Osborne brings all these together in his RISE 26 Keynote Address