Updates

RALEIGH, NC (April 13, 2021) – Blake Fagan, MD, and Eric Morse, MD were both awarded the Frederick B. Glaser Award on April 9 at the Addiction Medicine 2021 conference. The biennial award, given by the Governor’s Institute and the NC Chapter of the American Society of...

Retention in outpatient treatment settings for opioid use disorder remains a critical challenge. This study used data from more than 130,000 episodes obtained from the 2017 Treatment Episode Dataset-Discharges (TEDS-D) to assess predictors of retention in treatment...

President Joe Biden became the third sitting U.S. president to address the Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit after delivering remarks on April 5, 2021. The president acknowledged that addiction is a crisis that “touches families in every community in red states and blue...

Harm reduction treatment helped people experiencing homelessness and alcohol use disorder cut down their drinking and improve their health – even if they didn’t quit drinking alcohol. That is one of the findings of a randomized clinical trial from a research team led...

The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health recently updated provisional data on opioid-related overdose and unintentional med/drug overdose with potential for abuse emergency department visits reports (NC DETECT), and the Emergency...

The opioid crisis in the U.S. may have led to an increase in the number of strokes due to more bacterial infections of the heart, or infective endocarditis, according to preliminary research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke...