| COVID-19: Potential Implications for Individuals with Substance Use Disorders |
| NIDA - NORA'S BLOG (03/12) – As people across the U.S. and the rest of the world contend with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the research community should be alert to the possibility that it could hit some populations with substance use disorders (SUDs) particularly hard. Because it attacks the lungs, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 could be an especially serious threat to those who smoke tobacco or marijuana or who vape. Read more |
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| A New, Big Review of The Evidence Found That Alcoholics Anonymous Works — For Some |
| VOX (03/11) – Addiction treatment based on Alcoholics Anonymous works as well as or better than scientifically proven treatments for alcohol addiction, according to a new review of previous studies by Cochrane, an organization renowned for its analyses of scientific research. Read more |
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| The Death Toll of The Opioid Epidemic Is Higher Than Originally Thought, Researchers Say |
| THE WASHINGTON POST (02/28) – […] But University of Rochester researchers found that between 1999 and 2016, about 100,000 more people died from opioids who were not accounted for — potentially obscuring the scope of the opioid epidemic and affecting funding for government programs intended to confront it, Elaine Hill, an economist and senior author of the study, told The Washington Post. Read more |
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| Part 1: Revealed: How Racism, Meth, and Sex Are Combining To Destroy Queer Black Lives here. |
BUZZFEED NEWS SERIES (02/27) – […] In interviews with BuzzFeed News for a three-part series that begins today, black and Latino queer men in LA and across Southern California detail their experiences with meth and the explosion of abuse, violence, and sexual exploitation it has unleashed. They reveal what happens in those drug-filled rooms when men of color meet white men for sex. Read more
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| Interpersonal Violence in The Context of Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders |
| PSYCHIATRIC TIMES (01/28) – [...] For example, individuals with serious mental illness incur approximately 2 to 3 times greater risk for interpersonal violence, while individuals with both serious mental illness and substance use disorders incur risk up to 10 times that of healthy individuals. Read more |
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| Importance of A Standard Unit Dose for Cannabis Research |
| WILEY ONLINE LIBRARY (02/21) – [...] They argue that a standard dose would help to guide consumers towards safer patterns of cannabis use. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) strongly supports the need for a standardized measure to facilitate research, and this was a key recommendation from NIDA's Cannabis Policy Research Council Workgroup. Read more |
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| Mindfulness May Protect Against Eating Disorders |
| PSYCHIATRY & BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LEARNING NETWORK (03/11) – Mindfulness is inversely associated with eating disorder psychopathology, according to a meta-analysis published online in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. The research spanned 70 papers, 74 independent samples, and 18,402 participants. Read more |
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| Connections Between Sleep and Substance Use Disorders |
| NIDA - NORA’S BLOG (03/09) – […] The relationship may be complex and bidirectional: Substance use causes sleep problems; but insomnia and insufficient sleep may also be a factor raising the risk of drug use and addiction. Recognizing the importance of this once-overlooked factor, addiction researchers are paying increased attention to sleep and sleep disturbances, and even thinking about ways to target sleep disruption in substance use disorder treatment and prevention. Read more |
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| Gabapentin Seems Efficacious for Alcohol Use Disorder |
| PHYSICIANS WEEKLY (03/09) – Gabapentin appears to be efficacious for the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD), especially among those with high alcohol withdrawal, according to a study published online March 9 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Read more |
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| You Might Just Be Addicted: Smartphone Use Physically Affects Your Brain, Study Says |
USA TODAY (02/19) – […] Regions in the brain known as grey matter showed changes in size and shape for people with social media addiction, according to a study published in the journal Addictive Behaviors. Read more
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| More Addiction Treatment Docs Needed for Opioid Crisis, House Panel Told |
| MEDPAGE TODAY (03/04) – The opioid crisis and growing addiction to methamphetamine and other stimulants won't be abated until the country trains more addiction medicine physicians, witnesses said at a House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing. Read more |
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| Connection Between Alcohol Use and Depression Could Aid Treatment |
| MSU TODAY (01/28) – […] At the end of the study, they found that high rates of delay discounting and low ability to tolerate stress not only increases the likelihood that a person would have one of the diseases but also increases the likelihood that a person would have both diseases. Read more |
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