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Why Are Many American Adults Misusing Prescription Painkillers?
Prescription painkillers are second only to marijuana as the United States drug of choice. Around 91.8 million Americans aged 18 and above used prescription painkillers in 2014, according to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health...
Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults
Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults is a new release from the US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
It provides the latest facts about marijuana use in the United States and includes information...
Non-Medical Prescription Opioid & Heroin Use among Adolescents Who Engage in Sports
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES: Previous research has found that adolescent athletes may be at increased risk of non-medical prescription opioid use (NPOU) due to injuries. Although adolescent athletes are at an increased risk of engaging in NPOU, it...
Membantu Pasien yang Minum Terlalu Banyak: Panduan Dokter
Perkenalan
Guideis ini ditulis untuk perawatan primer dan dokter kesehatan mental. Ini telah diproduksi oleh National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), komponen dari National Institutes of Health, dengan bimbingan dari...
Orientasi Seksual dan Perkiraan Penggunaan Zat Dewasa dan Kesehatan Mental
Abstrak
Latar Belakang: Penelitian menunjukkan bahwa minoritas seksual (misalnya orang yang mengidentifikasi sebagai lesbian, gay, atau biseksual) berada pada risiko yang lebih besar untuk penggunaan zat dan masalah kesehatan mental diband...
The Societal Cost of Heroin Use Disorder in the United States
ABSTRACT
Objective
Heroin use in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. The objective of this paper is to estimate the annual societal cost of heroin use disorder in the United States in 2015 US dollars.
Methods
An analytic...
Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: What's There to Learn?
This misuse of prescription opioids is a major public health challenge. Buprenorphine-naloxone (bup-nx) is typically used to treat opioid use disorders. However, the drug’s clinical trial primarily involved heroin users. It was therefore...
How Do We Tackle the Opioid Epidemic?
The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction.
New research presented...
Receptivity to Tobacco Ads Linked to Smoking Susceptibility Among Youth
There is a strong link between receptivity to tobacco product advertisements and susceptibility to smoking cigarettes later in life, according to new research published in the journal Pediatrics. Put simply, the study suggests that the more...
Excessive Drinking: More a Result of Low Socioeconomic Status Than Access to Alcohol?
Among US neighbourhoods, poverty and disorganisation, that is high levels of crime, drug trafficking and graffiti etc., may increase the risk of problem drinking, more so than the presence of bars or stores that sell alcohol.
In other...
State HCV Incidence and Policies Related to HCV Preventive and Treatment Services for Persons Who Inject Drugs — United States, 2015–2016
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
The United States has experienced a sharp increase in hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence that can be attributed to injection drug use. Some states have used public health laws and treatment...
Extending the Reach of Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders into Rural Areas
A new study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine suggests that a tele-psychiatric approach which uses video-link technology in combination with medicinal treatment in the form of buprenorphine could be as effective as the usual...
Can Medical Marijuana Promote Illegal Use?
Illegal marijuana use and reported cases of addiction have increased more rapidly in US states that passed laws to introduce medical marijuana compared to those that did not. This is according to new research to be published in the journal...
Ganja Terkait dengan Masalah Kardiovaskular
Penggunaan ganja dapat meningkatkan risiko stroke dan gagal jantung.
Ini disimpulkan menjadi kasus bahkan setelah memperhitungkan faktor risiko demografi dan gaya hidup, serta kondisi kesehatan lainnya.
Temuan baru tentang potensi efek...
Karakteristik Overdosis Fentanil - Massachusetts, 2014–2016
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Apa yang sudah diketahui tentang topik ini?
Fentanyl memiliki kehadiran yang berkembang di pasar obat terlarang dan terlibat dalam peningkatan proporsi kematian overdosis opioid.
Apa yang ditambahkan oleh laporan ini?
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Aplikasi Klinis Elemen Budaya untuk Populasi Hispanik dan Latin
Manual ini dirancang untuk mengajarkan konsep, nilai, dan strategi kompetensi budaya untuk keterlibatan dan pengobatan dengan Hispanik dan Latin dengan gangguan penggunaan zat (SUD). Manual ini memperkenalkan pemahaman dasar tentang...
Aktivitas Olahraga dan Penyalahgunaan Zat di Kalangan Remaja: Apa Tautannya?
Sebuah survei baru-baru ini yang mengamati kebiasaan narkoba lebih dari 20.000 atlet sekolah menengah AS telah menemukan mereka yang bermain olahraga kontak tinggi, seperti hoki, lebih cenderung menggunakan heroin dan opioid resep untuk...
Strategi Kesehatan Masyarakat untuk Mencegah Sindrom Pantang Neonatal: CDC Grand Rounds
Beban Kesehatan Masyarakat dari Sindrom Pantang Neonatal
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) adalah sindrom penarikan obat yang paling sering terjadi pada bayi setelah paparan opioid dalam rahim, meskipun zat lain juga telah dikaitkan...
Opioid Terkait dengan Peningkatan Kematian Overdosis Terkait Kokain
Heroin dan opioid sintetis mendorong peningkatan akhir-akhir ini dalam kematian overdosis terkait kokain. Ini menurut survei nasional yang dilakukan oleh para peneliti di National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) di antara badan penelitian...