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Marijuana and hallucinogen use among young adults reached all time-high in 2021
Marijuana and hallucinogen use in the past year reported by young adults 19 to 30 years old increased significantly in 2021 compared to five and 10 years ago, reaching historic highs in this age group [...]
Percentage of overdose deaths involving methadone declined between January 2019 and August 2021
The percentage of methadone-involved overdose deaths relative to all drug overdose deaths declined from January 2019 to August 2021, according to a new study. Access to methadone, a medication to treat opioid use disorder, was [...]
NIH scientists identify new brain mechanism involved in impulsive cocaine-seeking in rats
Researchers have found that blocking certain acetylcholine receptors in the lateral habenula (LHb), an area of the brain that balances reward and aversion, made it harder to resist seeking cocaine in a rat model of [...]
Tobacco smoking rates are decreasing in people with major depression and substance use disorder
Significant reductions in cigarette use were found among U.S. adults with major depression, substance use disorder, or both from 2006 to 2019, according to a new analysis of nationally representative survey data published today in [...]
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 a new analysis of a nationwide survey in the United [...]
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 pills seized by law enforcement increased nearly 50-fold from the [...]
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 National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of 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 used to diagnose substance use disorder, according to researchers at [...]
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 long-term health outcomes than patients who receive the standard four [...]
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 opioid use disorder, known as buprenorphine, were less likely to [...]
- Reported drug use among adolescents continued to hold below pre-pandemic levels in 2023
- Reported drug use among adolescents continued to hold below pre-pandemic levels in 2023
- Overdose deaths increased in pregnant and postpartum women from early 2018 to late 2021
- Overdose deaths increased in pregnant and postpartum women from early 2018 to late 2021
- Los suicidios por sobredosis de drogas aumentaron entre los jóvenes, las personas mayores y las mujeres negras, a pesar de la tendencia general decreciente
- Los suicidios por sobredosis de drogas aumentaron entre los jóvenes, las personas mayores y las mujeres negras, a pesar de la tendencia general decreciente
- Suicides by drug overdose increased among young people, elderly people, and Black women, despite overall downward trend
- Los suicidios por sobredosis de drogas aumentaron entre los jóvenes, las personas mayores y las mujeres negras, a pesar de la tendencia general decreciente
- Suicides by drug overdose increased among young people, elderly people, and Black women, despite overall downward trend
- Suicides by drug overdose increased among young people, elderly people, and Black women, despite overall downward trend
- La conexión social, el sueño y la actividad física se asociaron con una mejor salud mental entre los jóvenes durante la pandemia de COVID-19
- La conexión social, el sueño y la actividad física se asociaron con una mejor salud mental entre los jóvenes durante la pandemia de COVID-19
- La conexión social, el sueño y la actividad física se asociaron con una mejor salud mental entre los jóvenes durante la pandemia de COVID-19
- La conexión social, el sueño y la actividad física se asociaron con una mejor salud mental entre los jóvenes durante la pandemia de COVID-19
- Social connectedness, sleep, and physical activity associated with better mental health among youth during the COVID-19 pandemic
ENSO Recovery News
Less Addictive Form Of Buprenorphine May Help Curb Cocaine Relapse
On Apr 27, 2020 Mouse study shows buprenorphine analog is more effective with reduced potential for abuse Bethesda, MD – The drug buprenorphine reduces relapse in patients with opioid addiction, and some emerging evidence [...]
The Challenge of Harm Reduction
The Challenge of Harm Reduction Changing Attitudes Toward Addiction Treatment By Andrew Tatarsky September/October 2019 In our first session, Peter, a successful lawyer, told me that he’d been smoking crystal meth for the past two [...]
Online Recovery Resources
Recovery in the Time of COVID It is said that the foundation to Recovery is Connection. Social isolation is a common characteristic of those suffering with active addiction and is a life [...]
Addiction Treatment Pivots for Coronavirus
Tishuna Words demonstrates curbside delivery of methadone at Community Medical Services in Phoenix. Nationwide, methadone clinics and other treatment providers are changing the way they provide medication, counseling and other medical services to limit [...]
NIDA – Potential Health Risks COVID-19 and Addiction
NIDA Director outlines potential risks to people who smoke and use drugs during COVID-19 pandemic The piece raises several important concerns regarding COVID-19 for specific vulnerable populations. Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic [...]
Ribbon Cutting – 93 Western Ave. | MAT Treatment and Recovery Residence
Warriors of Change representing law enforcement, corrections, treatment and State Government braved frigid conditions Friday to officially welcome ENSO Recovery to Augusta. ENSO Recovery will be providing outpatient substance use and mental health [...]
Grand Opening-93 Western Avenue
Enso Recovery New Outpatient Treatment Program & A Level III MARR Certified MAT Recovery 14 Bed Residence for Men Specializing in the Treatment of Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders in Community and Correctional [...]
Opioid Overdose Risk Is High After Medical Treatment Ends, Study Finds News
People with opioid addiction face a high risk of overdose after ending treatment, even when treated for 18 months, a Columbia study has found. December 2, 2019 In Brief People with opioid addiction face [...]
Primary care management of opioid use disorders
Primary care management of opioid use disorders Abstinence, methadone, or buprenorphine-naloxone? Anita Srivastava, MD CCFP MSc Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario and [...]
Landmark Study Identifies Six Genetic Markers of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Risk
Findings Implicate Novel Biological Pathways in PTSD, Advancing Understanding of Prevention and Treatment Collaborative Effort Greatly Accelerated, Expanded Scope of Study to Examine More Than 30,000 Multiethnic PTSD Cases and 170,000 Controls New [...]