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    The addiction prevention efforts that APA has undertaken to date as part of my presidential initiative on addiction have largely focused on adolescents in middle school or high school, as this is often the age when experimentation with substances begins to occur. There’s logic to this, of course, as early intervention often has the best outcomes for people with substance use disorders (SUDs) and other mental disorders. However, as the American population ages, we cannot afford to compound an already

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    Attendees from APA and six other medical organizations agreed on the importance of sharing resources and, especially, communication with the public around the importance of addiction treatment. The…

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    In the first of APA’s @theAPA Educational Series, APA President Petros Levounis M.D., M.A., described how perspectives of addiction and its treatment have come a long way in the last 40 years.

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