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.
“We’ve learned in the past 20 years or so how harmful trauma exposure is across physical, mental, and behavioral health.”—Elinam D. Dellor, PhD, MSW
A roundup on legislative and organizational initiatives to stem the rising rates of drug overdose deaths.
Expert describes the diagnostic criteria for cannabis use disorder and other cannabis-related disorders.
Debra R. Newman, PA-C, MSPAS, MPH, practices addiction medicine in the criminal justice system and is an educator on opioid use disorder management.
Compared with nonpharmacologic approaches, research consistently supports the benefits of medication for opioid use disorder, including fewer deaths, higher rates of sustained recovery, and greater cost-effectiveness.
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.
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.
The researchers developed a mathematical model to analyze the fundamental reason for a potential hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal opponent process for alcohol addiction.
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.
