The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) – News conference

TIME: 10:30 a.m.

EVENT: The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) holds a news conference to release "the most comprehensive report on the effectiveness of medications for opioid addiction and how access to these FDA-approved drugs is being restricted by state government and insurance company policies."

PARTICIPANTS: Stuart Gitlow, president of ASAM; Tom McLellan, executive director of the Treatment Research Institute and former Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy; and Whitney, a patient taking buprenorphine

DATE: June 20, 2013

LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Zenger Room, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: Alexis Geier Horan, 202-276-7873, ageier@asam.org