Updates

Research over the past year has shown – the opioid epidemic did not go anywhere in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather, it grew in strength and is taking advantage of a society now more susceptible than ever. In a large cross-sectional study published in JAMA...

Alcoholism-related liver disease was a growing problem before the pandemic, with 15 million people diagnosed with the condition around the country over the last decade. But the pandemic has drastically added to the toll. Specialists at hospitals affiliated with the...

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...