| Confidentiality for Patients With Substance Use Disorders Is Under Threat |
| FILTER MAG (01/17) – [...] But CFR Part 2 is now under severe threat. Too often, only lip-service is paid to patient needs, with most of the attention going to the convenience of the system. Influential groups in the SUD space are actively advocating to strip away the regulation’s protections—and the Department of Health and Human Services recently joined that campaign. Read more |
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| Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives |
| THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, AND MEDICINE (03/20) – [...] With support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened an expert committee to examine the evidence base for medications to treat OUD and to identify barriers that prevent people from accessing safe, effective, medication-based treatment. Read more |
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| Marijuana as a Cure for Opioid Use? Nation's Top Drug Scientist Says She's Skeptical |
| USA TODAY (03/20) – The head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse said there’s no evidence that marijuana weans people from opioid addiction – and promoting such treatment might deny people a chance at recovery. Read more |
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| White House Releases Resource Guide for Schools to Prevent Illicit Drug Use |
| WHITEHOUSE.GOV (03/25) – Today, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released the Administration’s school resource guide for teachers, administrators and staff to help educate and protect students from substance abuse. Read more |
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| Fentanyl Drug Overdose Deaths Rising Most Sharply Among African Americans |
| THE WASHINGTON POST (03/21) – The synthetic opioid fentanyl has been driving up the rate of fatal drug overdoses across racial and social lines in the United States, with the sharpest increase among African Americans, according to a new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read more |
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| March Madness: With Gambling Legal in Eight States, Who Really Wins? |
| THE CONVERSATION (03/21) – […] With millions more Americans gambling legally, it’s no longer scary, but that doesn’t mean some officials and observers aren’t concerned about perils in its rapid growth. Read more |
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| Marijuana ER Visits Climb in Denver Hospital Study |
| AP NEWS (03/25) – Five years after Colorado first legalized marijuana, a new study shows pot’s bad effects are sending more people to the emergency room. Read more |
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| Water Into Sand: OUD Pharmacotherapy and Implementation Science: Why Training on Evidence-Based Practices is Never Enough |
| NIATX (03/19) – [...] Despite the significant public health need for this life-saving treatment, MAT remains underutilized (Jones, Campopiano, Baldwin, McCance-Katz, 2015). In 2016, only 41% of U.S. treatment facilities offered at least one of the medications (Jones A, Honermann B, Sharp A, Millett, G, 2018). Read more |
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| Why Less Is Always More in the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders |
JAMA PSYCHIATRY (03/13) – [...] For most major causes of alcohol-attributable death, the risk associations between lifetime drinking and mortality are exponential. For all-cause mortality in high-income countries, depending on the distribution of causes of death in these countries, this means that the resulting risk association between the level of alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality is also exponential after 100 g of alcohol consumption per week. Read more
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| CBD Is Being Sold at the Largest Drugstore Chain in the U.S. |
| MARKET WATCH (03/21) – CVS Health Corp. is selling products with a derivative of cannabis, the drugstore chain said Wednesday evening, despite continuing questions about legality. Read more |
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| Many in Addiction Recovery Face Chronic Health Issues |
| PSYCH CENTRAL (03/22) – More than a third of people recovering from addiction continue to suffer from chronic physical disease, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Recovery Research Institute. Read more |
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| Why use SASSI screening questionnaires: |
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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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| Brain Research Reveals a Circuit for Cocaine Relapse |
| SCIENCE DAILY (03/18) – […] Kalivas and his colleagues report in the March 13, 2019 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience that they have identified a type of neuron that is critical for cocaine-seeking behaviors in rodents. Read more |
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| Executive Functioning Deficits Reported in Binge Eating Disorder With Depressive Symptoms |
| PSYCHIATRY ADVISOR (03/25) – Self-reported impaired daily functioning in patients with binge eating disorder (BED) was correlated with the severity of depressive symptoms, according to study data published in Psychiatry Research. Read more |
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