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Improving Our Treatment Approach for Opioid Use Disorder

A new national study, directed in part by Roger D. Weiss, MD , chief of McLean Hospital’s Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction , aims to create a model to predict who can successfully wean off their medication for opioid use disorder while also exploring how to help patients to continue some...

Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction: New Names Reflect Progress

We are pleased to announce important name changes for McLean’s Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse and its associated treatment program. As of Monday, March 2, 2020, the division will officially be known as the Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction and the umbrella treatment program will be known...

Five McLean Clinicians Named to Boston Magazine’s Top Doctors List

Boston magazine has named five McLean Hospital clinicians to its Top Doctors list for 2020. Honorees were selected through the publication’s annual survey of doctors in the Boston area. The list includes experts in fields such as dermatology, cardiology, orthopedics, pediatrics, and psychiatry...

McLean Hospital Clinicians Named as Top Docs in Boston

McLean Hospital is excited to announce that a number of its clinicians have been named to Boston Magazine’s annual “top docs” list for 2019. This list, which is published annually, includes more than 1,500 doctors from over 60 specialties. Below are the seven McLean clinicians who were included in...

Philanthropy Provides Crucial Support for Addiction Treatment

When Maria Curtis’s son was released from a McLean treatment program, she was so impressed by the follow-up he received that she and her husband John made a gift to the hospital, directing it to help patients during their early recovery. Their generosity was enormously appreciated, says Roger D...

McLean Staff Discuss Mental Health With Senator Angus King of Maine

Roger D. Weiss, MD , chief of McLean Hospital’s Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction; Adriana Bobinchock, senior director of Public Affairs and Communications at McLean; and Christine Tebaldi, PMHNP-BC , director of Clinical Business Development at McLean, joined Maine Senator Angus King this...

On the Front Line of the Opioid Crisis

It was a problem we never used to speak about, something that afflicted those “down on their luck” or residents of “skid row” who could not cope with their lives. They dealt with those challenges with alcohol and drug abuse, the drug of choice frequently heroin. Today, addiction —particularly to...

McLean’s Integrated Group Therapy App Wins Innovation Challenge

A team from McLean Hospital won this year’s Partners Connected Health Innovation Challenge (CHIC) for a proposal to create a digital platform that brings integrated group therapy (IGT) to individuals with co-occurring mood disorders and addiction to drugs or alcohol . The team, which competed...

Making Connections: Divisions Advance McLean’s Strategic Agenda

When Bill and Barbara Boger learned of plans for a Division of Psychotic Disorders at McLean, they saw an opportunity to make a lasting difference through their philanthropy . The Bogers, McLean National Council members and longtime donors, have contributed to many clinical and research endeavors at...

We Don’t Just Treat Addiction, We Treat People

Expert Care, Exceptional Outcomes Substance misuse is a condition that is painful, life-threatening, and causes disruptions to relationships and work. At McLean, we understand how hard it is to live with addiction to drugs or alcohol, but we know recovery is possible. We see it every day. As the #1...