MERF was established in 1981 to increase and improve the education of physicians about alcoholism and other drug dependencies— specifically about the evidence, the science base, and how to apply it with patients. We particularly stress the clinical continuum of diagnosis, treatment and recovery for the patient and the family members.
read moreLearn about MERF from the comments of those who have participated in our mentored learning experiences at conferences in the past.
read moreMERF provides mentored learning experiences at annual conferences on addiction medicine. The next is:
State of the Art in Addiction Medicine
Sponsored by the California Society of Addiction Medicine
October 7-10, 2009
Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco
The Betty Ford Institute, in collaboration with MERF, has undertaken a project to identify effective strategies for incorporating addiction medicine and science into primary care residencies. To see the background materials for this project, click the link below.
see betty ford institute resources
For those of us who are learning and teaching about addiction, there are hundreds (thousands) of resources and very little time to sort through them. We have selected items and present them here with our notes for why they are helpful and how they can be used.
Recent additions:
Clinical Challenges in Prescribing Controlled Drugs: Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (2008)
Samet: Beyond Cage—A Brief Clinical Approach After Detection of Substance Abuse (1996)
Alford: An Evaluation of the Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) (2008)
D'Onofrio: Improving Emergency Medicine Residents' Approach to Patients With Alcohol Problems (2002)
Koob: Neuroscience of Addiction (1998)
see all resources