E-Cigarette Initiation and Associated Changes in Smoking Cessation and Reduction
Daily e-cigarette initiators were more likely to have quit smoking cigarettes or reduced use compared with non-users.
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The Relationships Between Stimulant Use and Gambling Among Adolescents
Adolescence is a period of time where young people are more likely to seek independence and novel experiences, experiment with their expression and identity and have less regard for risk. Given the natural surge in sensation-seeking...
Οι σχέσεις μεταξύ χρήσης ουσιών και τυχερών παιχνιδιών στη σχιζοφρένεια
Ανταύγειες
- Υψηλά ποσοστά τόσο προβληματικών όσο και παθολογικών διαταραχών τζόγου και χρήσης ουσιών έχουν αναφερθεί στη σχιζοφρένεια
- Η έρευνα δείχνει ότι το πρόβλημα και η παθολογική χρήση τυχερών παιχνιδιών και ουσιών συνδέεται με αυξη...
Sustained Opioid Antagonism Modulates Striatal Sensitivity to Baby Schema in Opioid Use Disorder
Highlights
- First fMRI study on the effects of naltrexone on social motivation in opioid-addicted patients.
- Extended release naltrexone modulates brain response to the level of cuteness in baby portraits.
- Reduction in craving for...
Evaluation of Amphetamine-Related Hospitalizations and Associated Clinical Outcomes and Costs in the United States
Key Points
Question: What are the current trends in frequency and costs of amphetamine-related hospitalizations in the United States?
Findings: In this cross-sectional study of approximately 1.3 million amphetamine-related US...
Η χρήση οπιοειδών μπορεί να αυξήσει τον κίνδυνο επικίνδυνης διαταραχής του καρδιακού ρυθμού
Η κατάχρηση οπιοειδών μπορεί να οδηγήσει σε πολλές δυσμενείς συνέπειες, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του εθισμού και του αυξημένου κινδύνου υπερδοσολογίας, ωστόσο προτείνεται όλο και περισσότερο ότι ακόμη και η ελεγχόμενη χρήση συνταγογραφούμενων...
Πώς το αλκοόλ μπορεί να αλλάξει τον τρόπο με τον οποίο σχηματίζονται οι αναμνήσεις
Η κατανάλωση αλκοόλ συχνά συνοδεύεται από αρνητικές παρενέργειες, όπως ναυτία ή πονοκεφάλους, ωστόσο έχουμε την τάση να θυμόμαστε τη θετική εμπειρία της κατανάλωσης αλκοόλ και όχι τις αρνητικές συνέπειες. Η κατανόηση του τρόπου με τον οποίο...
Risk Factors for Discontinuation of Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), and the associated risk of overdose and death, is becoming one of the most prevalent threats to health and social wellbeing in the United States. Medication, such as buprenorphine, is the gold standard treatment...
The Mechanism Behind Alcohol Addiction
Alcohol is known to affect a region in our brain called the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA), otherwise known as the “pleasure centre”. By activating specific neurones that then go on to release the neurochemical dopamine within this...
Planning and Designing the Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) for Hospitalized Adults with Substance Use Disorder
Abstract
People with substance use disorders (SUD) have high rates of hospitalization and readmission, long lengths of stay, and skyrocketing healthcare costs. Yet, models for improving care are extremely limited. We performed a needs...
Despite Falling Rates, Smoking-Related Lung Cancer Will Remain a Major Health Concern
Tobacco control interventions introduced in the United States over the past 50 years have led to notable decrease in smoking and smoking-related diseases, including lung cancer.
In a recent study, published by University of Michigan's...
Internet-Delivered Drug and Alcohol Treatment
Study examining the link between cognitive functioning and treatment outcomes of an internet-delivered intervention
Κατάχρηση φαρμάκων και προφίλ μόλυνσης από τον ιό της ηπατίτιδας C για τρεις γενιές ασθενών που παρακολουθούνται για συμμόρφωση με συνταγογραφούμενα φάρμακα
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Στόχοι: Δύο επιδημίες στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες σχετίζονται: η ένεση οπιοειδών φαρμάκων και η μόλυνση από τον ιό της ηπατίτιδας C (HCV). Αυτή η μελέτη ποσοτικοποιεί τη σχέση μεταξύ της κατάχρησης παράνομων / συνταγογραφούμενων...
Tobacco Use by Clients Receiving SUD Treatment
Although cigarette smoking among adults in the United States has been steadily decreasing, rates continue to remain high amongst certain vulnerable populations.
A recent study published in the international journal of Addictive Behaviours ...
Αυτόχθονες Αμερικανοί έφηβοι σε υψηλότερο κίνδυνο για κατάχρηση ουσιών
Μια πρόσφατη μελέτη έχει διαπιστώσει ότι οι έφηβοι ιθαγενών Αμερικανών διατρέχουν μεγαλύτερο κίνδυνο κατάχρησης αλκοόλ και ναρκωτικών από άλλους Αμερικανούς εφήβους.
Τα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας συλλέχθηκαν από 1.700 αυτόχθονες Αμερικανούς...
Mechanisms of Neuroimmune Gene Induction in Alcoholism
Abstract
Rationale
Alcoholism is a primary, chronic relapsing disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry. It is characterized by an individual’s continued drinking despite negative consequences related to alcohol...
Emergency Department Screening and Interventions for Substance Use Disorders
Abstract
The emergency department (ED) has long been recognized as providing critical access to the health care system for many, yet only in the past few decades has the ED visit been recognized as an opportunity to identify and link...
Barriers to Addiction Treatment among Formerly Incarcerated Adults with Substance Use Disorders
Abstract
Background
Addiction treatment improves substance use and criminal recidivism outcomes among justice-involved individuals with substance use disorders, but is underutilized. Although information exists regarding barriers to...
Mortality in the United States from Self-Injury Surpasses Diabetes: A Prevention Imperative
Abstract
This report uses an enhanced conceptualisation of self-injury mortality (SIM), which comprised registered or known suicides by any method and estimated non-suicide deaths from opioid and other drug self-intoxication. SIM surpassed...
Mind the Gap: Putting Evidence into Practice in the Era of Learning Health Systems
Due to the increasing amount of available published evidence and the continual need to apply and update evidence in practice, we propose a shift in the way evidence generated by learning health systems can be integrated into more traditional evidence reviews.