| Along With COVID, Racial Trauma Takes Extra Mental Toll on African Americans |
NBC (06/04) – [...] "Our nation’s African American community is going through an extremely painful experience, pain that has been inflicted upon this community repeatedly throughout history and is magnified by mass media and repeated deaths," said Dan Gillison, the CEO of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. "The effect of racism and racial trauma on mental health is real and cannot be ignored…Racism is a public health crisis." Read more
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| COVID-19 Pandemic Shines Light On Harmful Stigmas Surrounding Drug Addiction And The Way Forward |
| ESSENCE (04/09) – [...] More, Hart explains, discussions about treating addiction cannot be divorced from the role that trauma plays in people’s lives, particularly African Americans who have lived with structurally enforced trauma for centuries—with virtually no structural interventions. Read more |
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| Follow-up Treatments After Opioid Overdose Rare Among Insured Patients |
| PENN MEDICINE NEWS (05/27) – [...] The lack of care was most pronounced among black patients, who were half as likely to receive post-overdose treatment as whites, even after adjusting for type of overdose (prescription or heroin), and other clinical characteristics. Read more |
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| Collision Of Crises: How COVID-19 Will Propel Drug Overdose From Bad To Worse |
| FORBES (05/23) – [...] Environmental stressors including trauma are known risk factors for SUD and relapse. And right now, there’s no shortage of things to be stressed about. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national unemployment rate skyrocketed from 3.5% in February to 14.7% in April, the worst since the Great Depression. Read more |
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| Study Finds Large Racial/Ethnic Differences in Use of Medication for OUD During Pregnancy |
| NEWS MEDICAL (05/27) – Black non-Hispanic and Hispanic women with opioid use disorder (OUD) are significantly less likely to receive or to consistently use any medication to treat their opioid use disorder during pregnancy than their white non-Hispanic counterparts, according to a new study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Read more |
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| Researchers Identify Rare Gene Variants Associated With Smoking and Alcohol Use |
| NIDA NOTES (05/29) – [...] They identified rare variants in 117 DNA regions as being associated with specific aspects of nicotine and alcohol use, including some in genes already known to influence these traits. Read more |
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| The Pandemic Has Changed Addiction Treatment, Some Hope For Good |
WBUR (05/21) – [...] Changes on the federal level prompted by the pandemic allow more patients to get doses of methadone to take at home, rather than going to a clinic each day for the medication. About two-thirds of the more than 23,000 people in Massachusetts prescribed methadone are now allowed to take it at home for up to 28 days at a time. State health officials say since the pandemic began, there have been only 19 reports of lost or stolen methadone. Read more
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| Topics in Mental Health: Physical Abuse and African American Oppression |
| MILWAUKEE COURIER (05/15) – Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are defined as multiple risks factors such as child abuse, neglect, parental substance abuse and maternal depression experienced prior to an individual turning eighteen years old. The trauma of physical abuse is one ACE which commonly leads to substance abuse. Read more |
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| A Few Months of Vaping Puts Healthy People on the Brink of Oral Disease |
| MEDICAL XPRESS (05/27) – [...] The collection of oral bacteria in daily e-cigarette users' mouths is teeming with potent infection-causing organisms that put vapers at substantial risk for ailments ranging from gum disease to cancer, researchers found. Read more |
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| Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Among Pregnant Women Referred by Criminal Justice Agencies Before and After Medicaid Expansion: A Retrospective Study of Admissions to Treatment Centers in the United States |
| PLOS MEDICINE (05/18) – [...] Pregnant women with OUD referred by criminal justice agencies received evidence-based treatment at lower rates than women referred through other sources. Improving access to medications for OUD for pregnant women referred by criminal justice agencies could provide public health benefits to mothers, infants, and communities. Read more |
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| Adolescent Exposure to Anesthetics May Cause Alcohol Use Disorder, New Research Shows |
| BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY (05/27) – [...] During their study, the adolescent rats exposed to isoflurane had a decreased sensitivity to the negative effects of alcohol, such as its aversive, sedative and socially suppressive effects. These rats also showed an increase in voluntary alcohol consumption and cognitive impairment, and certain behaviors continued into adulthood after their initial anesthetic exposure. Read more |
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| Today's High Potency Weed Raises Risk of Anxiety and Addiction, Study Says |
| CNN (05/27) – [...] A new study, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, surveyed more than 1,000 UK residents who reported marijuana use in the past year. The study found high-potency weed users appear to have a significant increase in the likelihood of developing generalized anxiety disorder than those who smoke less robust strains of marijuana. Read more |
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| New Molecule Stops Drug Cravings in Mice With Fewer Side Effects |
| DUKE TODAY (05/28) – Duke University researchers have developed a synthetic molecule that selectively dampens the physiological rewards of cocaine in mice. It also may represent a new class of drugs that could be more specific with fewer side effects than current medications. Read more |
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