| Origins of an Epidemic: Purdue Pharma Knew Its Opioids Were Widely Abused |
| NEW YORK TIMES (05/29) – [... A] confidential Justice Department report shows that federal prosecutors investigating the company found that Purdue Pharma knew about “significant” abuse of OxyContin in the first years after the drug’s introduction in 1996 and concealed that information. Read more |
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| Court-Mandated Substance Abuse Treatment: Exploring the Ethics and Efficacy |
PSYCHIATRY ADVISOR (05/29) – Mandatory treatment is defined as “treatment ordered, motivated, or supervised under the criminal justice system.” Going beyond the more common drug court approaches that offer a person charged with a crime the choice of treatment instead of incarceration, several US states mandate that people with addiction enter treatment against their will, and that trend is expanding. Read more
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| If Addiction Is a Disease, Why Is Relapsing a Crime? [Opinion] |
| NEW YORK TIMES (05/29) – […] “Our patients are far less likely to talk honestly about their relapses and their struggles with recovery if they think it’s going to land them in jail,” says Sarah Coughlin, a social worker and addiction specialist in Charlestown, Mass. “It puts us in a tough spot, because it breeds mistrust.” It also breeds fear[.] Read more |
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| Unseen Face of the Opioid Epidemic: Drug Abuse Among the Elderly Grows |
| WASHINGTON POST (05/25) – […] “Older Americans are among those unseen in this epidemic,” said Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (Pa.), the top Democrat on the panel. “In 2016, one in three people with a Medicare prescription drug plan received an opioid prescription. This puts baby boomers and our oldest generation at great risk.” Read more |
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| Prevalence of Eating Disorders Taken From Largest Sample in the United States |
| EUREKA ALERT (05/30) – […] The new estimates were based on a nationally-representative sample of 36,309 adults--the largest national sample of US adults ever studied. The findings estimate that 0.80 percent of US adults will be affected by anorexia nervosa in their lifetime; 0.28 percent will be affected by bulimia nervosa; and 0.85 percent will be affected by binge eating disorder. Read more |
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- Identifies SUD – even when someone is reluctant to self-disclose.
- Accurately identifies individuals likely to be abusing prescription medications.
- Screens for multiple levels of severity.
- Distinguishes likely SUD from other psychological disorders.
- Useful in developing treatment plans and goals.
- Available for adults, adolescents, and special populations.
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| Human Drug Addiction Behaviors Tied to Specific Impairments in 6 Brain Networks |
| SCIENCE DAILY (06/06) – Specific impairments within six large-scale brain networks during drug cue exposure, decision-making, inhibitory control, and social-emotional processing are associated with drug addiction behaviors, according to a systematic review of more than 100 published neuroimaging studies by experts at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published Wednesday, June 6 in the journal Neuron. Read more |
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| A Growing Number of Sober Programs Support College Students Recovering From Addiction |
| NBC NEWS (05/29) – […] Last year, 5.3 million young adults needed treatment for substance abuse, nearly one in six people between the ages of 18 and 25, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. This has put renewed attention on the lack of specialized services on college campuses for those who are in recovery. Read more |
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| Native American Tribes Fight to Not be Forgotten in Massive Opioid Litigation |
| CLEVELAND.COM (05/30) – […] Camp-Horinek, one of more than 3,000 members of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, said members of her tribe turned to drugs for various reasons, including mistreatment by the government, environmental problems and having a lower standard of living than other parts of the country. Many got addicted simply by listening to their doctors. Read more |
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| The Feds are Raiding the Offices of Doctors Who Prescribe Addiction Medication |
| VICE (06/06) – In the last two years, at least several dozen prescribers of addiction medications have been targeted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and other law enforcement agencies in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Indiana, and Kentucky, among others. Read more |
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| Finding the Women Who Become Problem Gamblers |
| SCIENCE BLOG (06/06) – With the proliferation of gaming options throughout the United States over the past decades — from Atlantic City to tribal casinos to the racino boom and now, to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on sports betting — gambling has evolved into something acceptable in society. Yet problem gambling remains an issue for about 5 percent of the adult population. Read more |
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| Social Media Usage Linked to Underage Drinking |
| EUREKA ALERT (05/23) – Social media often features celebrities drinking cocktails, boozy how-to posts, and party pictures. This is the environment American teens are immersed in every day, with 71 percent of teens using more than one social media site, spending an average of nine hours a day using media. Despite the popularity of social media and alcohol-filled posts, little is known about the influence social media activity can have on teen and young adult and drinking behaviors. Read more |
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| ‘The Police Aren’t Just Getting You in Trouble. They Actually Care.’ |
POLITICO (06/02) – In 2015, police in towns across eastern Massachusetts began to embrace a new way to respond to a public health crisis with a rapidly escalating death toll. … [A]nyone who showed up at the police station and asked for help overcoming an opiate addiction would get it, without fear of arrest, no matter where they lived or whether they had insurance. Police, [the police chief] said, would get them into treatment. Read more
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| Money, Not E-Cigs May Be the Key to Helping People Quit Smoking |
| The FIX (05/29) – E-cigarettes aren’t just hipster-y and cloying—they also may not actually help people quit smoking. That’s according to a new study that found that e-cigarettes weren’t any better than other methods of smoking cessation, and the only thing that really works is paying people to quit. Read more |
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| How Fentanyl Could Alter Global Drug Policy |
| WASHINGTON POST (05/22) – Policymakers and the public are acutely aware that the powerful opioid fentanyl has significantly worsened the country’s opioid epidemic, accounting for almost 20,000 deaths in 2016. But few people appreciate fentanyl’s potential to permanently alter illegal drug markets and international relations along with them. Read more |
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