Updates

According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, 65 percent of the U.S. prison population meets the medical criteria for drug or alcohol use disorders but less than 11 percent receives treatment for those illnesses. The National Governors Association...

A national group of pediatric addiction medicine experts have released newly-established principles of care for young adults with substance use disorder. The collection of peer-reviewed papers, led by the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center, was...

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), this update includes...

A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry shows methamphetamine overdose deaths surged in an eight-year period in the United States. The findings revealed rapid rises across all racial and ethnic groups but American Indians and Alaska Natives had the highest death...

Far too often, people battling opioid addiction don’t seek treatment because the disease is persistently stigmatized. To help alleviate this, various medical ways of describing opioid-related impairment, such as a “chronically relapsing brain disease,” “illness,” or...

Heavy use of marijuana by teens and young adults with mood disorders is linked to an increased risk of self-harm, suicide attempts and death, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics. "The perception is that marijuana is safe to use, but we need to...