An increasing number of adolescents and young adults use cannabis for recreational or medicinal purposes, unaware that potential adverse effects include psychosis.
The CRAFFT screening tool has acceptable concurrent and predictive value for substance use and substance use disorders in youth who visit pediatric emergency departments, and has value in predicting substance use disorders at follow-up.
Early-onset psychiatric comorbidity was primarily associated with increased risk for natural death in adults with ADHD, while later-onset psychiatric comorbidity was more often associated with death due to such causes as suicide and unintentional injury.
Expanded Medicaid eligibility thresholds were associated with a reduction in substance use disorder-related deaths during the current US opioid epidemic.
Physicians reported that a lack of training in brief intervention and reimbursement make providing screening and intervention more difficult when caring for youth with possible substance use disorders.
In a draft report issued December 28, 2018 by the US Department of Health and Human Services-sponsored Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force, recommendations for a multidisciplinary approach to pain management were formulated.
