| FDA Will Broaden How It Evaluates New Addiction Treatment Drugs |
| STAT (08/06) - The Food and Drug Administration on Mondayannounced a shift in the way it evaluates drugs to treat opioid addiction that the agency says will give it more flexibility to approve new treatments. Now, rather than merely examining whether a potential treatment reduces opioid use, the agency will consider factors like whether a drug could reduce overdose rates or the transmission of infectious diseases. Read more |
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| Facebook to Require Treatment Centers to Obtain Certification from Monitoring Firm |
| BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE (08/09) - Facebook on Thursdayannounced that, effective immediately, it will require addiction treatment centers to obtain certification from monitoring firm LegitScript before being approved to advertise in-person addiction treatment services in the United States. Read more |
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| Medicaid Expansion States See Rise in Coverage for Low Income Adults with Substance Use Disorders |
| MEDICAL XPRESS (08/14) - The percentage of low-income Americans with substance use disorders who were uninsured declined more sharply in states that chose to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act versus states that did not, according to a new study at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The results are published online in the journal Health Affairs. Read more |
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| Binge Gambling and Gambling-Related Harms |
BASIS (08/14) - Some people who gamble do so regularly, while others might have episodic patterns of gambling and non-gambling. Binge gambling is another type of gambling, where people gamble in irregular patterns but gamble a lot when they do. Are these patterns related to gambling harms? Read more
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| Coroner Sent Letters to Doctors Whose Patients Died of Opioid Overdoses. Doctors' Habits Quickly Changed |
LOS ANGELES TIMES (08/09) - Addressed directly to the doctor, the letter arrived in a plain business envelope with a return address of the San Diego County medical examiner’s office. Its contents were intended, ever so carefully, to focus the physician on a national epidemic of opioid abuse — and his or her possible role in it. Read more
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| Adolescent Binge Drinking: Developmental Context and Opportunities for Prevention |
| NIAAA (2018) - Compared with adults, adolescent drinkers tend to consume higher quantities of alcohol per occasion but drink less frequently. Thus, underage drinkers ages 12 to 20 typically consume 4 to 5 drinks per drinking episode, which is nearly double the average of the 2 to 3 drinks usually consumed by adults (older than age 25). Most of the alcohol consumption of underage drinkers occurs during “binge” episodes characterized by drinking high quantities. 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.
TRAINING AVAILABLE - NAADAC CEUs |
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| Reducing the Opioid Overdose Death Toll in North America |
PLOS MEDICINE (07/31) - Over the past two decades, the United States population has experienced an extraordinary increase in the rates of death from opioid overdose. A steep rise in fatal overdoses caused by pharmaceutical opioids observed over the last 15 years has been overtaken by rapidly increasing rates of heroin and illicit fentanyl overdose death as the supply of prescription opioids has been reduced. Read more
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| Is Nicotine Actually Bad for You? |
| THE VERGE (08/10) - ...Still, that doesn’t mean nicotine is harmless — particularly not for young people whose brains are still developing. Nicotine may also be risky to use while pregnant, the surgeon general reports. And when it comes to heart health, the jury’s still out; the risks of nicotine on its own “are low compared to cigarette smoking, but are still of concern in people with cardiovascular disease,” according to a 2016 review of the research published in the journal Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine. And there’s still a lot we don’t know about the long-term safety. Read more |
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| Brief Interventions During Routine Care Reduce Alcohol Use Among Men with HIV |
| MEDICAL XPRESS (08/13) - Among the more than 1 million people in the U.S. living with HIV, 19 percent meet the criteria for an alcohol use disorder. The consequences can be severe, with heavy drinking associated with increased liver disease, greater engagement in risky sexual behavior, lower adherence to antiretroviral therapy and greater risk of death. Read more |
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| The Number of Pregnant Women Abusing Opioids Skyrockets |
| PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE (08/10) - The number of women giving birth with opioid use disorder quadrupled between 1999 and 2014, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. Read more |
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| Benzodiazepines Are Associated with Increased Risk of Alzheimer's Disease |
| SCIENCE DAILY (08/13) - The use of benzodiazepines and related drugs (Z drugs) is associated with a modestly increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland. The risk increase was similar with both benzodiazepines and Z drugs regardless of their half-life. The results were published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. Read more |
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| Federal Grant Aims To Help Pennsylvanians With Opioid Use Disorder Return To Work |
| WESA (08/06) - Pennsylvania is one of six states starting a pilot program providing reemployment services to people with a history of opioid use. Funding comes from a $22 million grant overseen by the U.S. Department of Labor, nearly $5 million of which will go to Pennsylvania. The grant will run through the end of June 2019, and be administration by the state Department of Labor and Industry. Read more |
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| Male Tobacco Smokers Have Brain-Wide Reduction of CB1 Receptors |
| SCIENCE DAILY (08/15) - Chronic, frequent tobacco smokers have a decreased number of cannabinoid CB1 receptors, the "pot receptor," when compared with non-smokers, reports a study in Biological Psychiatry. The study, the result of a collaboration of researchers affiliated with the National Institutes of Health, Maryland, supports that CB1 receptors play a role in smoking. Read more |
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| A New Study Shows Just How Much Doctors Prescribe Opioids |
| TIME (07/28) - After years of rising use, federal data suggests that opioid prescriptions are beginning to drop off in the U.S., perhaps in an effort to curtail a substance abuse epidemic that continues to get worse. But new research suggests that many doctors are still prescribing these powerful drugs — even for relatively minor injuries. Read more |
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