Updates

America’s overdose crisis is taking more lives than ever before. Overdose deaths in 2019 jumped nearly 5 percent higher than 2018, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC estimates the largest overdose spike...

While the nation has shifted its attention to combating the coronavirus pandemic, the opioid crisis has not gone away, especially in North Carolina. The Tar Heel state saw a spike in overdoses in the spring and early summer months of the pandemic, due largely in part...

Visits to the doctor dropped dramatically in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. But with an increase in telehealth visits, patients who were already being treated for opioid use disorder (OUD) continued to see doctors and get prescription refills at a...

A drug once used to treat high blood pressure can help alcoholics with withdrawal symptoms reduce or eliminate their drinking, according to Yale University researchers. In a double-blind study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers gave the drug...

There are substantial gaps in knowledge about opioid misuse in girls and women after decades of underrepresentation of females in preclinical and clinical research. As the difference in opioid misuse prevalence between men and women narrows, the need to fill these...

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