| Two-Thirds of Global Drug Deaths Now from Opioids: UN Drugs Report |
UN NEWS (06/26) – Opioids, which include both heroin and legal pain relievers, were responsible for around two-thirds of drug-related deaths in 2017, the latest World Drug Report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed on Wednesday. Read more
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| Four Best Practices For A Sustainable Addiction Recovery Business |
| FORBES (06/18) – Every single day in the United States, over 130 people die from overdosing on opioids, causing a $78.5 billion-per-year economic burden on the country. Yet at a time when patients and addiction treatment facilities need it most, obtaining network contracts at fair rates is becoming increasingly difficult. Read more |
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| The Secondhand Harms of Drinking Impact 1 in 5 Adults, Study Says |
| CNN (07/01) – About one-fifth of adults in the United States have experienced some form of harm due to someone else's behavior while drinking. That's according to a study published Monday in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, which found that in 2015, an estimated 53 million adults -- or nearly 1 in 5 -- said they had experienced at least one harm attributable to someone else's drinking in the past year. Read more |
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| Marijuana Study Finds CBD Can Cause Liver Damage |
| FORBES (06/18) – […] The findings, which were published earlier this year in the journal Molecules, suggest that while people may be using CBD as a safer alternative to conventional pain relievers, like acetaminophen, the compound may actually be just as harmful to their livers. Read more |
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| Early Warning Signs of Eating Disorder Revealed |
| MEDICAL XPRESS (07/01) – […] The results, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, showed that people diagnosed with a disorder had higher rates of other conditions and of prescriptions in the years before their diagnosis. Read more |
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| FDA Issues Warnings to Companies Selling Illegal, Unapproved Kratom Drug Products Marketed for Opioid Cessation, Pain Treatment and Other Medical Uses |
| FDA NEWS RELEASE (06/25) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to two marketers and distributors of kratom products – Cali Botanicals of Folsom, California, and Kratom NC of Wilmington, North Carolina – for illegally selling unapproved, misbranded kratom-containing drug products with unproven claims about their ability to treat or cure opioid addiction and withdrawal symptoms. Read more |
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| Smoking Sharply Raises Young Women's Risk of a Serious Type of Heart Attack |
| CNN (06/24) – Smoking is bad for your heart, especially if you are a young woman. Women under 50 who smoke may face the highest risk of a serious type of heart attack compared to men, according to a new study published Monday in the [sic] Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Read more |
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| How The Opioid Epidemic Affects Women Differently |
| BUSTLE (06/05) – […] While the number of men who die from opioid overdoses is significantly higher than the number of women — men have accounted for about two-thirds of fatal opioid overdoses in the United States since 2002 — women “are closing that gap,” according to a 2017 report examining opioid misuse among women from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health (OWH). Read more |
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| Adolescents' Tech Addiction Is A Growing Problem, Therapists Say |
| NPR (06/17) – [...] Addiction therapists are confronting a problem - kids who are spending too much time online. Being addicted to the Internet is not officially a recognized disorder, which means there's no established criteria for treatment. But clinics say they're seeing more and more worried parents. Read more |
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| Gene-Edited, Less Addictive Tobacco Could Help You Quit Smoking |
| FUTURISM (06/25) – A team of scientists from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany have figured out a way to grow tobacco plants that contain 99.7 percent less nicotine. Read more |
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| Characteristics of US Counties with High Opioid Overdose Mortality and Low Capacity to Deliver Medications for Opioid Use Disorder |
| JAMA NETWORK (06/28) – […] Counties with low availability of OUD medication providers and high rates of opioid overdose mortality were less likely to be micropolitan and have lower primary care clinician density, but were more likely to be in the East North Central, South Atlantic, or Mountain division and have higher rates of unemployment. Read more |
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| The Overlooked Crisis of Eating Disorders Among Middle-Aged Women |
| THE WASHINGTON POST (06/17) – […] A 2012 study estimated that 13 percent of American woman age 50 and older have eating disorder symptoms. A 2017 study found that about 3.5 percent of women older than 40 have a diagnosable eating disorder, yet most are not receiving treatment. Another study found that though rates of anorexia plateau around age 26, rates of bulimia don’t plateau until around age 47, and rates of binge-eating disorder don’t plateau until the 70s. Read more |
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| Study Asks High-Risk Opioid Users If They'd Take Advantage of Safe Consumption Sites |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (07/02) – A large majority of people who use heroin and fentanyl would be willing to use safe consumption spaces where they could obtain sterile syringes and have medical support in case of overdose, suggests a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Read more |
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| In a Nationwide First, New Jersey Authorizes Paramedics to Start Addiction Treatment at the Scene of an Overdose |
| STAT NEWS (06/26) – In a potential paradigm shift for addiction medicine, New Jersey’s health commissioner this week authorized paramedics to administer the drug buprenorphine to patients almost immediately after reviving them from an opioid overdose. Paramedics would offer patients the drug, often referred to by the brand name Suboxone, after their overdose had been reversed using the opioid antidote naloxone. Read more |
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| First Controlled Study of LSD Microdosing Finds Few Benefits — and Some Downsides |
| PSYPOST (06/16) – New research confirms that the alterations in consciousness associated with very low doses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) are not just the result of a placebo effect. But the findings suggest that these “microdoses” might not have many benefits. Read more |
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