Health Disparities in Rural America: Current Challenges and Future Solutions
Rural America is falling behind in many of the top health categories, including heart disease, cancer, and lower life expectancy.
Substance Use
How Does Shift Work Influence Sleep and Mental Health?
The stresses and sleep disturbances of shift work can lead to major mental health issues, as well as workplace challenges, including safety concerns and poor on-the-job performance.
Psychiatric Disorders Share Common Neural Circuit, Emotion Processing Dysfunction
The results of the study point to the validity of the Research Domain Criteria initiative and suggest that neuroimaging findings may not be specific to certain psychiatric disorders.
Mental Disorders Increase the Risk for Premature Mortality
Despite the higher association between death by suicide and other external causes in individuals with mental disorders, researchers noted that most premature death in this group was attributable to natural causes.
Gunshot Wounds Take an Emotional and Psychological Toll on Survivors
The data reflect the lasting effect of gunshot wounds on victims, with poor physical and psychosocial outcomes after 5 years, indicating that the burden of gun violence extends beyond mortality and economic cost.
Comorbid Substance Use Disorder Raises Risk of Treatment-Resistant Depression
Patients with treatment resistant depression (TRD), defined as at least 3 treatment trials within a single depressive episode, were matched with 5 controls with non-treatment–resistant depression.
New Clinical Guideline on Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment for Severe Opioid Use Disorder
The Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse National Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment Steering Committee has released a new guideline.
CRAFFT Valid When Screening for Substance Use in Youth
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.
Psychiatric Comorbidity Increases the Risk for Death in Individuals With ADHD
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.
Substance Use Disorder May Be Associated With Higher Prevalence of Cluster Headache
The prevalence of cluster headache may be higher in individuals with a substance use disorder than in the general population.
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