Updates
Loneliness Among US Veterans with Problematic Substance Use: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study
Loneliness is a major public health concern, especially among individuals with problematic substance use (PSU), but little research has focused on vulnerable groups like US military veterans. This study, using data from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans...
Study Reveals How Alcohol Misuse Damages Cognition
For the first time researchers demonstrate in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making. Rats exposed to high amounts of alcohol exhibited poor decision-making during a complex task...
Female Veterans, Veterans from Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups at Higher Risk of Dying from Opioid Overdose
Veterans face a significantly heightened risk of dying from opioid overdose—a trend that has steadily worsened over the past two decades. Between 2010 and 2019, male veterans experienced a 61.2% increase in the risk of overdose death. Notably, this sharp rise was not...
Study Finds One in Five U.S. Adults Use Multiple Drugs, Revealing New Patterns in Substance Use
A study from researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus reveals that nearly one in five U.S. adults have used multiple drugs in the past year, showing that substance use is fairly common and more complex than just using one drug at a time. The...
Synthetic Opioid and Stimulant Co-Involved Overdose Deaths by Occupation and Industry — United States, 2022
The authors note that some persons using opioids also use psychostimulants (amphetamines or similar) or cocaine to reduce sedation and improve workplace performance. They used vital statistics data (with cause of death and occupation information) to identify 69,893...
Coming Events

NC Statewide Overdose Reports
May 2025
The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health (IVPB) recently posted an update of suspected overdose deaths, fentanyl-positive deaths, and provisional data on Emergency Department (ED) visits for overdose reports. The IVPB would like to...
April 2025
The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health (IVPB) recently posted an update of suspected overdose deaths, fentanyl-positive deaths, and provisional data on Emergency Department (ED) visits for overdose reports. The IVPB also recently...
March 2025
The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health (IVPB) recently posted an update of suspected overdose deaths, fentanyl-positive deaths, and provisional data on Emergency Department (ED) visits for overdose reports. The IVPB also recently...
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