Drug use severity in adolescence affects substance use disorder risk in adulthood
People who reported multiple symptoms consistent with severe substance use disorder at age 18 exhibited two or more of these symptoms in adulthood, according to [...]
Law enforcement seizures of pills containing fentanyl increased dramatically between 2018-2021
Law enforcement seizures of pills containing illicit fentanyl increased dramatically between January 2018 and December 2021, according to a new study. The number of individual [...]
Strengthening Federal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Programs: Opportunities, Challenges, and Emerging Issues
View the hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions CommitteeChairwoman Murray, Ranking Member Burr, and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting the [...]
NIH analysis of Reddit forum suggests experience of non-suicidal self-harm shares characteristics with addiction
A large majority of individuals who reported and discussed non-suicidal self-injury on the social media platform Reddit described their experience in terms similar to those [...]
Elana’s Law
Enso Recovery Executive Director, Steve Danzig - LCSW, CCS, LADC, CIP, a twenty year plus veteran of SUD treatment and a nationally recognized interventionist, [...]
Take-home antibiotic therapies may improve health outcomes, lower costs, for patients with drug use-associated infective endocarditis
A new modelling study suggests that when patients who inject opioids continue an antibiotic treatment for infective endocarditis outside of the hospital, they experience better [...]
Vivitrol and Overdose Risk
Vivitrol and Overdose Risk A new analysis of a large randomized trial finds 2.4x higher risk for overdose with naltrexone compared to buprenorphine. Methadone [...]
Overdose epidemic costs US $1T per year: research
The ongoing opioid epidemic is costing the U.S. $1 trillion every year, posing "a threat to our national security and global competitiveness," according to a bipartisan [...]
Offering buprenorphine medication to people with opioid use disorder in jail may reduce rearrest and reconviction
A study conducted in two rural Massachusetts jails found that people with opioid use disorder who were incarcerated and received a medication approved to treat [...]
Making Addiction Treatment More Realistic And Pragmatic: The Perfect Should Not Be The Enemy Of The Good
Nora D. Volkow JANUARY 3, 202210.1377/forefront.20211221.691862 Last year saw drug overdose deaths in the U.S. surpass an unthinkable milestone: 100,000 deaths in a year. This is [...]