03/26/2026
Women’s History Month Spotlight: Dr. Ruth Fox
Today, we honor Dr. Ruth Fox, the founder and first medical director of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), the critical structure for substance use disorder care curriculum. She is recognized for her pioneering contributions to psychiatry and has played a key role in developing contemporary approaches to treating substance use disorders.
Her work helped make it more common to believe that:
✨Medically-assisted treatment (MAT) can play an important role in treating substance use disorders.
✨Substance use disorders should be handled with evidence-based m**hods, not with moral judgment or punishment.