| With Public Meeting, FDA Signals Interest in New Opioid Limits |
MEDPAGE TODAY (06/10) – FDA advisors will meet Tuesday and Wednesday to address high doses of opioids in outpatient settings, suggesting that the agency believes dosing strengths of approved products represent a lever it can use to discourage overprescribing. Read more
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| Sex Addiction, Porn, and Online Dating: An Interview with Dr. Stefanie Carnes |
| THE FIX (06/18) – Dr. Stefanie Carnes, Ph.D., CSAT-S is the President of the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) and a senior fellow for Meadows Behavioral Healthcare, where she works with people struggling with sex, love, and intimacy disorders and their families. [...] The Fix is honored to have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Stefanie Carnes about the rise of sex and porn addiction and how it’s tied to the increased availability of online pornography and hook-up apps, the necessity for a different paradigm in treating family members, and how stigma is causing harm to a growing and largely unrecognized population of sex addicts: women. Read more |
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| Gene Increases Risk for Pot Addiction |
| SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (06/17) – Danish researchers have for the first time identified a gene that increases the risk for cannabis use disorder. About 10 percent of people who ingest cannabis, the most commonly used illicit substance in the world, suffer cravings and withdrawals when they try to stop their habit. All substance abuse is the result of a combination of environmental and genetic factors, but until now, none of those genetic factors had been identified. Read more |
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| Federal Grants Restricted to Fighting Opioids Miss the Mark, States Say |
| NPR (06/13) – [...] The federal government has doled out at least $2.4 billion in state grants since 2017, in hopes of stemming an opioid epidemic that killed 47,600 people in the U.S. in that year alone. But state officials note that drug abuse problems seldom involve only one substance. Read more |
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| Legalizing Medical Cannabis Reduces Opioid Overdose Deaths? Not So Fast, New Study Says |
| STAT NEWS (06/10) – […] A 2014 paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine reported lower opioid overdose death rates in states with medical marijuana laws. A study published Monday in PNAS contradicts that widely cited paper, raising new questions about whether and how medical marijuana can affect the opioid crisis. Read more |
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| Inside the Elementary School Where Drug Addiction Sets the Curriculum |
| THE NEW YORK TIMES (06/12) – [...] About half of the student body at one Ohio elementary school has witnessed drug use at home. Educators spend time every day teaching the children how to cope. Read more |
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| Mental Health Problems and Initiation of E-cigarette and Combustible Cigarette Use (Abstract) |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS (06/2019) – […] Mental health problems are associated with increased risk for initiating e-cigarette, combustible cigarette, and dual-product use in adolescence. Read more |
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| Formation of Habitual Use Drives Cannabis Addiction |
| SCIENCEDAILY (06/13) – A shift from brain systems controlling reward-driven use to habit-driven use differentiates heavy cannabis users who are addicted to the drug from users who aren't, according to a new study. Read more |
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| Appeals Court’s Smart Move Paves the Way for Opioid Addiction Treatment in Prisons and Jails (Opinion) |
| STAT NEWS (0610) – A ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston that an inmate is entitled to receive medication for her opioid use disorder was a big win in the ongoing battle against the stigma that those with substance use disorders face on a daily basis. Read more |
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| This School District Has a Way to Combat Vaping: Random Nicotine Tests |
| THE NEW YORK TIMES (06/17) – A school district in Nebraska will start randomly testing students who take part in extracurricular activities for nicotine, after educators noticed a sharp rise in the use of e-cigarettes, a school official said Monday. Read more |
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| Teen Boys' Eating Disorders May Focus on Muscles, Not Weight Loss |
| REUTERS (06/05) – Many people may mistakenly assume teen boys are not prone to eating disorders because their symptoms are different from what’s typically seen in girls and their focus is on building muscle rather than becoming impossibly thin, doctors warn. Read more |
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| New Study Finds Cannabis May Be 'Unsafe' For Pregnant Women |
| WBUR (06/18) – There's now more evidence that cannabis may not be safe for pregnant women to use. A newly published study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that women who use cannabis during pregnancy could be at higher risk for preterm birth. The findings add to prior research that suggests cannabis use can increase the risk of stillbirth and affect brain development. Read more |
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| Early Life Exposure to Nicotine Alters Neurons, Predisposes Brain to Addiction Later |
| SCIENCEDAILY (05/21) – In a new mouse study, neonatal exposure to nicotine changed the biochemistry of reward circuitry in the brain. Researchers suggest the same mechanism may be at work in humans. Read more |
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| Study Finds California Veterans Use Cannabis to Replace Other Drugs |
| THE MERCURY NEWS (06/18) – Most veterans who use cannabis report using the drug to treat physical or mental maladies instead of turning to prescription medications or other drugs, a study of California veterans found. Read more |
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| Meth in The Morning, Heroin st Night: Inside The Seesaw Struggle of Dual Addiction |
| NPR (06/17) – [...] Across the U.S., more and more opioid users say they use methamphetamine as well, up from 19% in 2011 to 34% in 2017, according to a study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence last year. The greatest increases were in the western United States. Read more |
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