It's so hard to believe anything that these guys say. I seem to remember them saying the same kind of thing in 2000. (And, their new chart certainly doesn't support that claim.) One thing that makes this a little more credible is that we're getting similar reports from other countries. (Source: Addiction and Recovery News)

New clinician-level performance measures for treating patients with known substance use disorders were approved at the AMA-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® (Consortium) meeting in the nation’s capital. The new measures are the first Consortium measures in this topic area, and are ready for use by physicians and other health care providers. “Substance use disorders are a major public health problem, with 22.6 million persons in the U.S.

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