This document is a useful resource for physicians that manage care services of patients with drug use disorders and its related consequences. It is intended to support quality improvement activities conducted by health care provider systems...
The purpose of this guide is to give people an idea of what you can expect when they have finished the process of detoxification. Ideas to help people stay away from alcohol and other drugs. Also explains the stages of the recovery, as well...
Background: Previous studies have shown that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex may serve as a potential treatment for cocaine use disorder (CUD), which remains a public health problem...
Recen...
The US is experiencing an unprecedented opioid overdose epidemic fostered in recent years by regional contamination of the heroin supply with the fentanyl family of synthetic opioids. Since 2011 opioid-related overdose...
Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Centre for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking and Health have been exploring the link between drug dependence, ongoing drug use, relapse and exposure to stress or experience of stressful events...
A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston has published a new study suggesting changes to the way opioids are prescribed after surgery could be a way to reduce misuse.
Featured in the British Medical Journal, the study Po...
Breast cancer survivors who consume alcohol excessively are at increased risk of recurrence and have worse prognosis. Because the environments in which people live shape many health behaviors, there has been increased...
Question: What is the association of cigar, pipe, and cigarette use with mortality risk in the US population?
Findings: In this nationally representative longitudinal cohort study of 357 420 participants comparing exclusive...
This Pocket Guide was summarized Guide 34 pages of the NIAAA, helping patients who drink too much: A guide clinical. Materials include:
Guide aimed at professionals of health to work with people from drinking alcohol in excess
This guide has been written for primary care health and mental health professionals. It has been produced by the National Institute on the Alcohol...
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Much work has investigated the association between substance use, crime, and recidivism, yet little scholarship has examined these associations longitudinally among samples of recently released prisoners. We examine...
NIDA. (2015, may 1). Facts about marijuana to teenagers. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/es/publicaciones/hechos-sobre-la-marihuana-para-adolescentes in 2018, February 15
Did you know that the use of marijuana among teens has...
NIDA. (2015, May 14). Marijuana: Facts for Teens. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/marijuana-facts-teens on 2018, February 15
Did you know that teen marijuana use has dropped dramatically since the late 1990s? So, if...
This article examines the association between drug use severity and mortality in primary care patients with substance use disorders. In 848 individuals with known vital status, severity was low in 32%, intermediate in 38%, or...
Novel synthetic opioids (NSOs) include various analogs of fentanyl and newly emerging non-fentanyl compounds. Together with illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF), these drugs have caused a recent spike in overdose deaths, whereas...
