| COVID-19 Is Destroying the Rehab Industry | | YAHOO! FINANCE (09/11) – [...] According to the latest survey of the industry, published Sept. 9 by the National Council for Behavioral Health (NCBH), which represents about 3,000 mental health and addiction treatment providers, 54% of organizations have closed programs and 65% have had to turn away patients. Read more |
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| Substance Use Disorders Linked to COVID-19 Susceptibility | NIH NEWS RELEASE (09/14) – [...] The analysis revealed that those with a recent SUD diagnosis on record were more likely than those without to develop COVID-19, an effect that was strongest for opioid use disorder, followed by tobacco use disorder. Read more
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| CMS Should Pursue Strategies To Increase the Number of At Risk Beneficiaries Acquiring Naloxone Through Medicaid | | HHS OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL (09/18) – [...] CMS and State Medicaid agencies can be encouraged by their progress to date in increasing access to naloxone while also continuing to look for ways to further expand naloxone availability under Medicaid. We recommend that CMS pursue strategies to increase the number of at-risk beneficiaries acquiring community-use versions of naloxone through Medicaid. Read more |
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| Black Americans, Suffering Disproportionately From COVID-19, Face a Mounting Mental Health Crisis | | BOSTON GLOBE (09/07) – [...] They also reported a higher prevalence of depression, symptoms of a trauma- and stress-related disorders, and substance use to cope with pandemic-induced distress. Read more |
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| Even With a License to Prescribe a Popular Addiction Treatment Drug, Many Doctors Aren’t Giving It to Their Patients | | THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER (08/28) – Only about half of the physicians licensed to prescribe buprenorphine — an opioid-based medication to treat addiction — actually prescribe it to patients, a national study from the Pew Charitable Trust and the Deerfield Institute has found. Read more |
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| Eating Disorders Thrive In Anxious Times, And Pose A Lethal Threat | | NPR (09/08) – [...] A survey in International Journal of Eating Disorders in July found 62% of people in the U.S. with anorexia experienced a worsening of symptoms as the pandemic hit. And nearly a third of Americans with binge-eating disorder, which is far more common, reported an increase in episodes. Read more |
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| Risk of Suicide, Unintentional Death Soar After Nonfatal Overdose | | PSYCHIATRIC NEWS (08/27) – Emergency department patients who survive an opioid overdose are 100 times more likely to die of an unintentional overdose and 18 times more likely to die of suicide within a year than patients who visit the emergency department for other reasons, a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has found. Read more |
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| College Students With Disabilities at Greater Risk for Substance Abuse | | MEDICAL XPRESS (09/21) – College students with physical and cognitive disabilities use illicit drugs more, and have a higher prevalence of drug use disorder, than their non-disabled peers, according to a Rutgers study. Read more |
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| Why ‘One Day at a Time’ Works for Recovering Alcoholics | | YALE NEWS (08/27) – “One day at a time” is a mantra for recovering alcoholics, for whom each day without a drink builds the strength to go on to the next. A new brain imaging study by Yale researchers shows why the approach works. Read more |
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| FDA Requiring Labeling Changes for Benzodiazepines | | FDA NEWS RELEASE (09/23) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today in a Drug Safety Communication that it is requiring an update to the Boxed Warning, the agency’s most prominent safety warning, and requiring class-wide labeling changes for benzodiazepines to include the risks of abuse, misuse, addiction, physical dependence and withdrawal reactions to help improve their safe use. Read more |
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| Nicotine Vapour More Rewarding for Adolescents Than Adults, Reveals U of G Study | | UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (09/16) – [...] “The adolescent brain may be especially vulnerable to the rewarding effects of nicotine vapour,” Khokhar said. “The shorter exposures may also suggest that it might take very limited exposure to the vapour for adolescents to experience the rewarding effects, and this may contribute to their continued use.” Read more |
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| Marijuana Use Is on the Rise in Older Adults | | NBC NEWS (08/31) – [...] The findings appear to reflect changing attitudes toward cannabis across the country, study co-author Bill Jesdale, an assistant professor of population and quantitative health science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worchester, suggested. Read more |
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| Three Genes Predict Success of Naltrexone in Alcohol Dependence Treatment | | MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (09/23) – [...] This finding indicates that patients can be genotyped before treatment to see if they will benefit from naltrexone. If they will not benefit, other medications that might be effective are available for them. Read more |
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| California Poised To Strengthen Mental Health Insurance Laws | | NPR (09/01) – [...] This week, California's legislature passed one of the nation's strictest mental health parity bills. It aims to increase mental health insurance coverage to include far more conditions — including, notably, addiction — as well as redefining the criteria for insurance denials. Read more |
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| Richmond Emergency Room Experienced a Surge in Opioid Overdoses During Pandemic | | VCU NEWS (09/25) – [...] Nonfatal opioid overdose visits to the VCU Medical Center emergency department in Richmond increased from 102 between March and June 2019 to 227 between March and June 2020. That’s an increase of 123%. Read more |
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