| New Report on Gambling Addiction in the Military Released; DoD Collects $500 Million in Slot Revenue 2011-2015 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL ON PROBLEM GAMBLING (01/31) - The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released today a report on gambling and gambling problems in the Armed Forces and the need for additional steps to prevent, screen and treat gambling addiction among service members. Read more |
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| NASEM Report Recommends Removing Barriers to Cannabis Research |
| NIH (02/28) - Last month, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a major new report on the health effects of cannabis and its constituent compounds, based on a comprehensive assessment of research conducted since 1999. Read more |
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| Top 10 Takeaways from SAMHSA’s Recent Update of Substance Use Disorder Confidentiality Regulations |
| NATIONAL LAW REVIEW (02/21) - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released a final rule (the “Final Rule”) in January 2017 modernizing the confidentiality requirements for substance use disorder (SUD) patient records (also known as 42 CFR Part 2, or “Part 2”)...The Final Rule will now take effect March 21, 2017. Following are our Top 10 Takeaways from the Final Rule. Read more |
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| Study Finds Effective Interventions to Prevent Alcohol Use Among American Indian and Rural Youth |
| NIH (03/24) - Community-based and individual-level prevention strategies are effective ways to reduce alcohol use among American Indian and other youth living in rural communities, according to a new study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. Read more |
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| China's Ban of a Deadly Tranquilizer Could Be a 'Game Changer' in North America's Opioid Epidemic |
| TIME (02/16) - China is adding the deadly elephant tranquilizer carfentanil and three related synthetic opioids to its list of controlled substances effective March 1...The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration called China's action a potential "game-changer" that is likely to reduce supply of key chemicals driving a surge of overdoses and deaths among unsuspecting drug users in North America. Read more |
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| PTSD in the Parents of Addicts |
| THE FIX (02/20) - Autumn didn't realize she had PTSD when she found her daughter near death on the floor. She realized it when she tried to kill her daughter's dealer...PTSD is typically characterized as a mental health condition that occurs when a person sees or experiences a terrifying event, and is most commonly associated with veterans of war or victims of assault. Yet parents of addicted children commonly experience events and mental and emotional responses that fall underneath the PTSD umbrella, sometimes called complex PTSD. Read more |
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| Rx scale that accurately identifies individuals likely to be abusing prescription medications. Screens for multiple levels of SUD severity. Enhanced SUD identification through subtle items added. Distinguishes likely SUD from other psychological disorders. Additional face valid items to identify symptoms represented in the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. TRAINING AVAILABLE - NAADAC CEUs |
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| Addiction Treatment Program Using Text Messaging Yields Positive Results |
| ADDICTION NOW (03/01) - A pilot study published in the American Journal of Addiction found that adolescents in six- and nine-month addiction treatment aftercare were less likely to use drugs again if they participated in a mobile texting recovery support intervention for a 12-week period. Read more |
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| The Hidden Link Between Autism and Addiction |
| THE ATLANTIC (03/02)...Until recently, researchers held that addiction among people with autism is rare, although there wasn’t much solid evidence for this view…A new study in Sweden, however, suggests that people with autism who have average or above-average intelligence quotients (IQs) are more than twice as likely to become addicted to alcohol or other drugs as their peers are. The risk is even higher for people who also have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This study is the first to look at the general risk for addiction among people with autism. Read more |
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| The Most Effective Interventions to Prevent Adolescent Drug Abuse |
| ADDICTION NOW (02/24) - A recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health looked at different substance abuse interventions for teenagers and determined which ones were the most effective in reducing the risk of adolescent drug abuse and addiction. Read more |
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| The Branches of Addiction Recovery and Intervention Approaches |
| ADDICTION NOW (02/27) - A research paper published in last month’s issue of the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing provided a deeper look into a range of different addiction recovery and intervention approaches currently used in mental health services. Read more |
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| When Bipolar Disorder and Addiction Coexist it Requires Dual Diagnosis Treatment |
| YAHOO FINANCE (03/28) - It's estimated that as many as half of bipolar disorder sufferers also struggle with some form of addiction. The extreme mania and depression of bipolar disorder makes it easy to see why turning to drugs or alcohol is a natural choice; warding off the lows and enhancing the highs can be accomplished almost immediately by self-medicating. Read more |
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| A Bayesian Observer Model of Drug Craving |
| JAMA PSYCHIATRY (02/15) - The reinforcement learning theory of drug addiction has been influential for decades... However, many empirical findings remain unaddressed. In particular, accumulating evidence suggests that DA, delivered by either addictive drugs or by pharmacological treatments, such as the nicotine replacement therapy, is not sufficient to reduce craving. Craving persists even after compulsive drug-taking behavior stops, suggesting that craving and drug-seeking behavior are 2 distinct processes, despite the fact that they are often homogenized in laboratory settings. Read more |
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| A Better Way to Treat Addiction in Jail |
| THE MARSHALL PROJECT (03/01)...Because Rhode Island’s is a unified system — all the state’s prisons and county jails are located on a single campus — it is the only state where almost every opiate-addicted inmate, whether in prison or jail, has access to a range of medications to treat their drug addiction. “Rhode Island has really embraced the opiate epidemic as an opportunity to improve services and treatment,” says Dr. Jennifer Clarke, the medical director for the state corrections department. “Locking people up is not a treatment.” In fact, prison or jail can lead to greater harm: Forced abstinence during incarceration makes users’ tolerance go down and cravings go up. Read more |
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| Louisiana's Compulsive Gambling Problem |
| THE FIX (03/01) - The state of Louisiana in 2016 found itself ranked #3 in the country for gambling addiction among adults... Understanding the breadth of gambling addiction in Louisiana is complex, to say the least. Janet Miller, the executive director of the Louisiana Association on Compulsive Gambling (LACG), said, “I think we have not seen in the clinical field the true numbers of gambling addicts yet. There is a lot more gambling going on that is a big problem, but it is easy to hide it. It’s not like alcoholism or drug addiction—someone can have a gambling problem and go undiagnosed for years. Read more |
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| Addicts Get Opioids During, After Addiction Treatment, Study Finds |
| NBC NEWS (02/23) - Two-thirds of people prescribed a drug usually used to treat opioid addiction get more of the addictive drugs after treatment, researchers reported Thursday. And more than 40 percent get an opioid at the same time as they are taking buprenorphine, potentially counteracting addiction treatment efforts, the team reported. Read more |
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