Addiction

The project demonstrates success in increasing availability and access of opioid-related services to residents of rural counties experiencing high overdose rates.

It is important to evaluate opioid use among patients before surgery to modify patient-level risk factors.

The combined treatment is more effective than usual care and pharmacotherapy for adults with alcohol or substance use disorder.

New research from Penn Medicine indicates 9.6% of heart surgery patients develop persistent opioid use post-procedure.

High-potency cannabis use led to an increase in cannabis use frequency, as well as cannabis problems.

Electronic nicotine device use could lead to a number of respiratory outcomes such as wheezing and dry coughs.

In a virtual APA session, Nora D. Volkow, MD, discusses how vaping can increase the risk of individuals of developing infections from the coronavirus.

A look at the 3 stages of alcohol abuse and the state of mental health throughout it.

Substance use is common in as many as 10% of pregnant women in the US. What are the risks of each substances, and what are the proven methods of treatment?

How do comorbidities influence patients' life expectancies? What is the role of public health programs?

A public health expert shares insight on the positives and pitfalls learned from stigma-reduction campaigns.

Women are more likely to enter remission from cannabis dependency than men.

A discussion on how difficulties accepting the drug addiction public health crisis is affecting the rate of care-seeking patients.

Policy reform is needed to give patients access to medications to treat their opioid use disorder.

Only 20.2% of primary care physicians show interest in treating patients with opioid use disorder.

Impulse control disorder symptoms also commonly found in Parkinson disease patients treated with dopamine agonists.

In the final segment of the series, experts look ahead to how pain management will grow to treat the millions of burdened Americans.

In part 4 of our series, guideline authors and researchers relay the particularities of guiding and regulating the spread of still-necessary painkiller prescriptions.

Findings of a new study can lead to more informed individualized opioid prescriptions.

In part 2, experts discuss how the public health crisis has reached a third decade, and what plans are to combat addiction problems.

The expert-led narrative series will seek to answer when and how the development of opioids led to a public health crisis.

A study of more than 300,000 older patients found use of tramadol was associated with an increased risk of hip fracture compared to 5 other pain medications.

The physician and memoir author shares his personal and professional perspective on what's needed to fix a broken system of care.

The pediatric oncologist-turned-author gives perspective on the current suicide epidemic in the US, and what he learned from his own struggles.

A new analysis is painting a clearer picture of the impact and causes of the rise and fall of US life expectancy between 1959 and 2017.