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What Is a Substance Use Disorder?
Addiction is a complex condition, a brain disease that is manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequence. Learn more at psychiatry.org.
What is ADHD?
Learn about ADHD including symptoms, risk factors, treatment options and answers to your questions.
Addressing Structural Racism Town Hall
Join APA leadership and distinguished speakers for an evening webinar on Monday, June 15, at 8:00 p.m. EDT to discuss longstanding racial inequalities experienced by Blacks in America.
Buprenorphine Prescriber Training
APA offers a number of training approaches for medication assisted treatment.
Striving for Excellence Series
APA has partnered with Morehouse School of Medicine African American Behavioral Health - Center of Excellence to develop the Striving for Excellence educational series. Each live webinar will cover practical problems and offer culturally appropriate, evidence-based practices and approaches for caring for African Americans/Black people.
APA Platform and Strategy on Performance Measurement
View the official platform and strategy on performance measurement of the American Psychiatric Association.
The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System
Learn about the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Improvement Activities Performance Category, which rewards your efforts to improve clinical practice.
Promoting Interoperability Performance Category
Learn about the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Promoting Interoperability Performance Category for 2019 reporting, which evaluates your use of electronic health records.
Report and Avoid Medicare Penalties
This resource has detailed instructions on how you can clarify your status under MIPS, earn higher payments, and avoid future penalties.
Implementing 9-8-8
Beginning July 16, 2022, people will use a new, easy to remember, three-digit code (988) to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The change from a 10-digit code to 9-8-8 will provide easy access to crisis services for people with mental health and substance use issues and help reduce the stigma surrounding these conditions.
Psychiatric Bed Crisis Report
The Psychiatric Bed Crisis Report assesses the problem and proposes a new model for estimating the needs within a community. It provides a critical component to inform the decisions of community leaders and policymakers in services capacity development.