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This current two-year clinical study among adult patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) examined drinking motives and their cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with alcohol consumption, severity of AUD, and…
Upadhyay is a dentist practicing in the Greater Boston area. It was a routine day in my practice. A 28-year-old man — polite ...
Hospitalizations for acute bacterial and fungal infections related to injection drug use are increasing in the background of the United States drug overdose crisis. These infections are a significant contributor to…
Secondhand smoke (SHS) remains a major global health concern, exposing individuals to toxic compounds that significantly increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, and respiratory illnesses. This…
Background As aging is associated with physiological changes, patients in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) may require an adequate methadone dose adjustment. We aimed to study the relationship between aging and…
People who inject drugs (PWID) are often excluded in research due to social circumstances and a lack of creativity when recruiting this community. Respondent driven sampling (RDS) is one method used to access…
Addiction is a complex and multifaceted condition that encompasses physiological, psychological, and environmental factors.
For years, big tech companies have placed the burden of managing screen time squarely on individuals and parents, operating on ...
For decades, addiction treatment in the United States has relied on a familiar explanation when people relapse: recovery is hard ...
Background Thousands of people have lost their lives due to overdose-related fatalities linked to the potent synthetic opioid epidemic, as mortalities increase annually. British Columbia (B.C.) Canada has been an…
Addiction is one of the most common and consequential chronic medical conditions in the United States. Nationwide, more than 46 ...
Patients with recurrent acute flares of pancreatitis—especially those receiving frequent opioid treatment for pain—can develop physiologic dependence to opioids. This can complicate the clinical picture, making it…
Buprenorphine is an effective medication for treating opioid use disorder but is underutilized partly due to patient apprehensiveness of the severe withdrawal symptoms it can induce when started, particularly by…
People bereaved by drug overdose experience a “special grief” that includes guilt, shame, and blame for their loved one’s death, which often compounds suffering and interferes with help-seeking. This population is…
We don’t experience the world through neat, separate senses—everything blends together. Smell, touch, sound, sight, and balance constantly influence one another, shaping how food tastes, objects feel, and even how heavy…
Mary started drinking regularly in the early nineties, when she was thirteen. Her father had recently married a Danish woman and ...
Injection-related severe bacterial infections (SBIs), including skin and soft tissue infections, endocarditis, and osteomyelitis, are rising in prevalence in the United States and disproportionately affect people who…
In Germany, about 3 million children live with at least one parent with substance use disorder (SUD). Those parents face multiple challenges in daily life that concurrently affect their children. The inpatient stay of…
Diagnosing substance-use disorder can be difficult because of patient denial related to the stigma attached to addiction.
Background Internationally, substance use recovery and healing is increasingly the focus of health and public policy and practice. Yet, what constitutes recovery and healing, and how it is understood and enacted among…
Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) is an evidence-based intervention that reduces harms associated with heroin use. Ambulance services often serve as the first point of contact for people experiencing these acute harms. OAT…
Non-medical ketamine use is becoming increasingly common in the United States (US), but awareness remains limited among US healthcare providers. Here we present the case of a young woman who developed severe ketamine use…
Incarcerated individuals with substance use disorders face a high risk of relapse in the absence of structured, motivational, and context-adapted interventions. This study examined changes associated with the…
This study is original in that it identified the care trajectories of patients with substance-related disorders (SRDs) over a 9-year period, and associated these trajectories with the patients’ sociodemographic and…
Approach Bias Modification (ApBM) is a recommended adjunctive intervention during residential treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), and there are also promising findings for ApBM as an adjunctive intervention for…
Comparative risk assessments (CRAs) provide important information for shaping alcohol control policies. Underlying their CRAs, the WHO uses a standardised methodology to assess and detail the levels of alcohol use for…
Engaging parents in substance and alcohol use prevention programs could play a key role in delaying the onset of use among adolescents. This research analyzes parents’ perceptions of substance use prevention programs…
Although perinatal substance use disorders (PSUDs) are increasingly prevalent among pregnant and postpartum (PPP) individuals, there is limited understanding of physicians’ perspectives on training needs and gaps in PSUD…
One of the principal components of substance use treatment is the assessment of craving, as it is highly associated with relapse after treatment. The Cocaine Craving Questionnaire-Brief (CCQ-Brief) has emerged as a…
Cannabis-based medicines have been widely promoted as a potential answer for people living with chronic nerve pain—but a major new review finds the evidence just isn’t there yet. After analyzing more than 20 clinical…
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