Emergency departments unwittingly have helped fuel an epidemic of prescription drug abuse and overdose deaths. It's estimated that nationwide 45 percent of the narcotics diverted for illegal use originated with emergency-department prescriptions. Now, the Providence-based...
source: The Providence Journal
This manual equips clinicians with a quick reference guide to addressing viral hepatitis in those with substance use disorders. It covers patient screening and evaluation of hepatitis, treatment, managing adverse effects, and potential interactions between medications.
source: SAMHSA
FDA mandated as part of the REMS, all manufacturers of ER/LA opioid analgesics must provide: 1) education for prescribers of these medications; and 2) information that prescribers can use when counseling patients about the risks and benefits of ER/LA opioid analgesic use.
source: PainEDU.org
A sweeping bipartisan package of drug legislation that would, among other things, infuse $180 million into "recovery housing" for people working to kick an addiction was recently unveiled by Ohio House lawmakers.
source: The Columbus Dispatch
A survey was conducted on the perceived value of certification with 157 certified addiction professionals in the state of Pennsylvania.
source: Addictive Disorders & Their Treatment
The website for the Collaborative Research on Addiction at NIH initiative recently launched. Comprised of representatives from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Tobacco...
source: Collaborative Research on Addiction at NIH
Dr. Jack Fishman, who helped develop naloxone, a powerful medication that has saved countless people from fatal overdoses of heroin and other narcotics, died on Dec. 7 at his home in Remsenburg, N.Y. He was 83.
source: The New York Times
On December 4, the NASADAD Research and Program Applications Department released a brief titled "Overview of State Legislation to Increase Access to Treatment for Opioid Overdose."
source: NASADAD
On Monday, December 9, Director Kerlikowske and Deputy Director Botticelli kicked off an unprecedented discussion at the White House on the future of drug policy. Approximately 140 people attended to engage in a conversation on drug policy reform and hundreds more watched...
source: The White House
A review of trauma services to ensure they are able to intervene as early as possible to help troubled people. High quality, effective psychological therapies should also be more widely and easily available.
source: STV
Reducing substance use among adolescents takes a multitude of strategies, from interventions in the first grade to treatment in jail. Nicholas Ialongo, Ph.D., a professor of mental health at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public...
source: Psychiatric News
The most recent findings of the National Institute on Drug Abuse's MTF study show significant decreases in cigarette smoking and drinking among our nation's adolescents. The study also reflects a decline in past year nonmedical use of prescription drugs and in synthetic...
source: Monitoring the Future
Gabapentin may substantially benefit people with long-term alcoholism who are trying to quit drinking. The data indicated that patients receiving the highest dose of gabapentin were found most likely to avoid heavy drinking, or to quit completely.
source: JAMA Internal Medicine
The aim of this survey was to assess the dosage and the frequency of side effects in patients with opioid dependency receiving opioid maintenance therapy.
source: Psychiatrische Praxis
Recurrent use of prescription opioid analgesics by chronic pain patients may result in opioid dependence, which involves implicit neurocognitive operations that organize and impel craving states and compulsive drug taking behavior.
source: Journal of Behavioral Medicine
