Updates

The talk of the town at this year’s American Society of Addiction Medicine annual conference was GLP-1 receptor agonists, generally known as medications to treat obesity. Mainstream media appears to mirror this trend as nearly every other radio and television ad...

The Pharmacy Access to Resources and Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (PhARM-OUD) Guideline is a Joint Consensus Practice Guideline developed by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy and the National Community Pharmacists Association. This comprehensive...

The Food and Drug Administration is warning the public about the harmful effects of products containing tianeptine, also referred to as "gas station heroin" due to its availability in gas station stores. Tianeptine is an opioid alternative prescribed as an...

Drug overdose deaths dropped in the United States last year to the lowest levels seen in five years, according to a new federal report. The provisional report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics found nationwide...

This is a systematic review of the literature on psilocybin for treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs). There were 7 studies on alcohol (AUD), 5 on tobacco (TUD), and 1 each on opioids and cocaine. Studies on AUD showed reductions in drinking days and drinking...