REACH is a 5-year initiative funded by SAMHSA– Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration
The overall goal of the REACH training program is to: (1) Increase the overall number of racial and ethnic underrepresented minority (URM) addiction specialists in the Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine workforce, and (2) increase the number of addiction specialists adequately trained to work with racial and ethnic URM patients with substance use disorders (SUD).
Scholar Updates
November 23, 2020
Bethany Canver and Kenny Morford authored article “Integrating Addiction Treatment in Primary Care: Training Needs and Novel Approaches”
Bethany Canver, MD, MSW, MSSP, Cohort 1 REACH scholar, and Kenny Morford, MD, REACH mentor, authored… Read more
November 12, 2020
Kevin Simon published paper in the New England Journal of Medicine
REACH Fellow, Kevin Simon, published a remarkable paper in the New England Journal of Medicine on Th… Read more
October 29, 2020
A case report by Scholar Chiedozie Ojimba published in the Journal of Medical Cases
A case report by Scholar Chiedozie Ojimba, titled “COVID-19 Pandemic and Uptake in Suicide Attempt A… Read more