"When primary care physicians realize that they can screen and manage alcohol problems and drug problems in an ambulatory setting, that will help to establish a much more firm foundation for medication-assisted treatment....The biggest growth over the last 15 years in the treatment of depression has been in primary care. With the introduction of screening and brief intervention as a general medical practice and the introduction of these relatively new medications, we really are at the tipping point of alcohol moving in the medical mainstream."

— Eric Goplerud, Ph.D., director of George Washington University Medical Center's program Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems, commenting to AIS's Drug Benefit News on the "tremendously underutilized" medications available to treat alcohol dependency.

… was paid to lobbyists in 2007 by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), according to public documents.

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