Three addiction medicine doctors in three different states share advocacy wins from 2025. Learn about the policies shaping addiction medicine across the country, and what helped push these legislative wins over the finish line.

Plus, discover highlights from ASAM’s new report on major state-level addiction medicine trends this year.

Featured in this episode:

• Chad Elkin, MD, Tennessee Society of Addiction Medicine

• Cate Heil, MD, Idaho Society of Addiction Medicine

• Stephanie Stewart, MD, Colorado Society of Addiction Medicine

Links:

• ASAM’s 2025 Mid-year Report: Trends in Addiction Medicine State Legislation

• List of 2025 Enacted State Legislation

Author and journalist Maia Szalavitz - winner of this year's 2025 ASAM Media Award - sat down to talk about her career covering addiction and public policy, as well as her most recent book Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction

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🏅ASAM Awards & Recognition

👉 Maia Szalavitz Official Website

📕 Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction

ASAM President Elect Tim Wiegand, MD, FACMT, FAACT, DFASAM, sat down with us at this year's 56th ASAM Annual Conference to discuss his road to addiction medicine and why he wanted to get involved in a leadership position with ASAM.

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🏅ASAM Awards & Recognition