For the 12-month period ending in May 2020, the CDC reported 81,000 drug overdose deaths — the most ever recorded in a 12-month period in the United States. We interviewed Danielle F. Haley, MPH, PhD, assistant professor in the department of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health about COVID-19 and the rates of substance abuse and overdose cases.
In this study, researchers investigated how smoking cessation medicines compare with respect to their, clinical effectiveness, safety, and cost effectiveness.
With research lacking on the contribution of different types of substance use disorders (SUDS) on mortality for those with eating disorders, researchers assessed the association of SUDS with mortality in anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and unspecified eating disorder compared with matched control subjects.
A multicomponent strategy provider intervention can increase initiation of buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder in the emergency department.
Researchers examined the prevalence of co-occurring psychiatric and medical conditions of pregnant individuals hospitalized with and without cannabis use disorder by concomitant substance use disorders.
Researchers examined nationwide data from the Welsh Demographic Service Dataset to determine if absence and exclusion from school were associated with a record of neurodevelopmental disorder, mental disorder, and self-harm.
Study data published in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment outline the primary factors affecting attrition in buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder.
Barriers to medications for opioid use disorder in teens and young adults include Black race, Hispanic and Latino ethnicity, living in the South, and involvement in the criminal justice system.
In a recent survey, more than half the college students with ADHD had at least 1 psychiatric disorder. The recent WHO World Mental Health Survey of college students assessed comorbidities in more than 15,000 college freshmen across 9 countries.
Researchers examined if an adolescent diagnosis with psychiatric disorders is associated with long term absence from education, employment, or training.
