Exercise Benefits for Recovery from Addiction
Exercise is a safe and effective tool in addressing substance use disorders and depression.
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Dec 17, 2021
Research You Can Use: Rapid Treatment of HCV for People Who Inject Drugs to Increase Cure Rates
Click here for CME/CE information and disclosures Rapid Treatment of HCV for People Who Inject Drugs to Increase Cure Rates Supported by...
Sep 29, 2021
A Strategy Toward Hepatitis C Elimination
Supporting Opioid Substitution Treatment and Hepatitis C Treatment in People Who Inject Drugs: A Strategy Toward Hepatitis C Elimination...
Apr 8, 2021
Impact of the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic on Ambulatory Hepatitis C Testing
The CDC estimates that 2.5 million individuals in the United States are living with chronic hepatitis C (HCV).
Nov 24, 2020
A New Medication-Assisted Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorders? Prazosin in the Treatment of AUDs
By Dr. Mark Gold and Dr. Lantie Jorandby Alcohol Use Today At least 95,000 people (approximately 68,000 men and 27,000 women) die from...
Aug 27, 2020
Buprenorphine, Suboxone and the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) in 2020
Medication for Addiction Treatment (MAT) and opioid use disorder treatment programs are essential parts of our response to overdose
Jul 28, 2020
Opioid Use Disorders and Opioid Overdose Epidemics
Improving Narcan availability is the best chance of saving lives from overdose.
Jun 29, 2020
Understanding Genetic Influences on Problematic Alcohol Use
Researchers learn more about genetic influences on SUD, and what we learn can guide later innovations in treatment and prevention.
May 19, 2020
How Marijuana Makes Cocaine More Compelling
“Cross-sensitization” refers to extreme responses to one substance after earlier use of a different drug.
Apr 14, 2020
Addiction and Sadness
he COVID-19 pandemic, through its inundation of pain, its deaths and job losses and isolation, breeds generalized sadness—and puts individu
Mar 3, 2020
New challenges in the opioid epidemic
New OUD research summarized for helps officials, practitioners, families, patients, and communities
Feb 18, 2020
Why Marijuana Doesn't Help with Stress
Why some individuals turn to marijuana for stress relief.
Feb 6, 2020
The newly discovered brain path linking nicotine to diabetes
The CDC says that tobacco products elevate the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes by 30-40 percent.
Jan 28, 2020
Punishment, the brain, and compulsive drinking
Punishment, the brain, and compulsive drinking. What leads only some individuals who drink heavily to drink compulsively?
Jan 16, 2020
The role of alcohol, drugs, and despair in falling U.S. life expectancy
Life expectancy falls due to drug overdoses, suicides, organ system diseases
Jan 9, 2020
How MDMA might help in therapy and treating PTSD
by Dr. Mark Gold In May, in a reflection on her religious upbringing, societal strictures, and individual spiritual development, The New...
Jan 2, 2020
What we have learned from stress and addiction research
Trauma, sexual, physical, or emotional, can change the brain and increase risks for many psychiatric conditions and diseases.
Dec 27, 2019
Physician substance use disorders: contingency management encourages recovery?
Imagine if the medical profession barred anyone being treated with pharmacotherapy for depression from returning to practice
Dec 20, 2019
We know vaping can cause serious lung problems. A new study says it might also cause cancer
Researchers asked tens of thousands of individuals about their use of tobacco products, e-cigarettes and their health.
Dec 12, 2019
Suicide might be a root cause of more opioid overdoses than we thought
If all overdoses are considered “accidental” until proven otherwise, we may be missing higher rates of suicide and depression
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