Fast Tracking Patients With Opioid Use Disorder From EDs Into MAT Programs
Patients with OUD treated in EDs at OHSU will have a fast-tracked entry to medication-assisted treatment programs, instead of waiting 6 weeks for an appointment.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Younger Teens Highly Susceptible to Lifetime Substance Abuse
Teens who use alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, or illegal drugs are more likely to develop life-long substance abuse disorder than those who start at a later age.
Changes in Mass of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Glands May Be New Target for Intervention in Alcohol Addiction
The researchers developed a mathematical model to analyze the fundamental reason for a potential hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal opponent process for alcohol addiction.
Expert Perspective: The Opioid Crisis and COVID-19
Learn more about the overlapping crises of the opioid epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic in this interview with pain specialist Paul J. Christo, MD, MBA, the Director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Intensive Counseling Improves Smoking Cessation Rates in Patients With Cancer
Patients with cancer who receive intense smoking cessation treatment are compared with patients who receive standard treatment to analyze the intervention’s impact on the likelihood of quitting smoking.
Controversy: Protecting People Who Use Illicit Drugs During COVID-19
Anna Lembke, MD, discusses how patients who use drugs are affected by the convergence of 2 public health emergencies – increasing overdose rates, and the COVID-19 pandemic – and addresses controversial solutions proposed by other investigators.
Substance Use Disorder Associated With an Increased Risk of Adverse COVID-19 Outcomes
Researchers analyzed how substance use disorder affected the risk of hospitalization, complications and mortality among adult patients who were diagnosed with having a COVID-19 infection.
Outpatient Buprenorphine Dispensing Up During COVID-19
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an increase in the number of patients receiving an outpatient buprenorphine.
COVID-19 Lockdown Tied to Increased Heavy Drinking
Heavy alcohol consumption among adults with a history of binge drinking increases the longer they spend at home in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia: Effects of Smoking on Clozapine and Health
Smoking increases the metabolism of clonidine through the CYP1A2, which may require the dose to be doubled to have the same plasma concentration as a non-smoker.
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