NIDA Scientists Review Impact of Smoking among Adolescents with ADHD
Two studies funded by NIDA have highlighted a correlation between ADHD symptoms and initial smoking age.
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Research Suggests Changes to the Way Opioids Are Prescribed after Surgery Could Prevent Misuse
A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston has published a new study suggesting changes to the way opioids are prescribed after surgery could be a way to reduce misuse.
Featured in the British Medical Journal, the study ...
New from SAMHSA: Medications for Opioid Use Disorders
SAMHSA has released a new publication as part of the Treatment Improvement Protocol series.
Guide to treatment and social integration in the field of addictions
The aim of this guide is to facilitate the understanding of the problem of adolescent substance use, as well as present practices based on clinical evidence more effective guidance and intervention with this population.
The guide is...
e-Addictology: An Overview of New Technologies for Assessing and Intervening in Addictive Behaviors
Background: New technologies can profoundly change the way we understand psychiatric pathologies and addictive disorders. New concepts are emerging with the development of more accurate means of collecting live data, computerized...
Reported Theory Use by Digital Interventions for Hazardous and Harmful Alcohol Consumption, and Association with Effectiveness
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Background: Applying theory to the design and evaluation of interventions is likely to increase effectiveness and improve the evidence base from which future interventions are developed, though few interventions report this.
...Risk of Violence in Drug Rehabilitation Centers
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In 2009, Mexico reformed its health law to partially decriminalize drug possession considered for personal use and to increase mandatory referrals to certified drug rehabilitation centers in lieu of incarceration...
Extent and Patterns of Drug Use among Persons with Disabilities in Kenya
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Background: Although some data existed suggesting that there was high prevalence of drug use among the general population in Kenya with 39-48% of 15-65 year olds having used alcohol and at least one other substance, there was a...
Substance Abuse during Pregnancy: A 5-Year Follow-Up of Mothers and Children
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Introduction: The study investigates health and social conditions among pregnant substance abusers and the children that were born from these pregnancies, and analyses outcomes in relation to type of substance abuse.
Methods...
Does Salt Addiction Exist?
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Background: Salt consumption activates the brain reward system, inducing cravings and the search for salted food. Its excessive intake is associated with high blood pressure and obesity. The high quantity of salt in processed...
Trends in Mortality Rates Where Alcohol Was a Necessary Cause of Death in Brazil, 2000–2013
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[ABSTRACT]. Objective: To analyze trends in mortality due to diseases and conditions fully attributable to alcohol in Brazil. Methods: This was an ecological time-series study. Proportional, specific, and age-standardized...
Alcohol Outlet Availability and Excessive Alcohol Consumption in Breast Cancer Survivors
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Breast cancer survivors who consume alcohol excessively are at increased risk of recurrence and have worse prognosis. Because the environments in which people live shape many health behaviors, there has been...
Association of Cigarette, Cigar, and Pipe Use With Mortality Risk in the US Population
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Question: What is the association of cigar, pipe, and cigarette use with mortality risk in the US population?
Findings: In this nationally representative longitudinal cohort study of 357 420 participants comparing exclusive...
Recommendations for NIDA's Cannabis Policy Research Agenda
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has released a new report Recommendations for NIDA's Cannabis Policy Research Agenda.
The document has been prepared by the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse Workgroup which was formed...
Reduced Orbitofrontal Gray Matter Concentration as a Marker of Premorbid Childhood Trauma in Cocaine Use Disorder
Background: Childhood trauma affects neurodevelopment and promotes vulnerability to impaired constraint, depression, and addiction. Reduced gray matter concentration (GMC) in the mesocorticolimbic regions implicated in reward processing and...
Cocaine Effects on Dopaminergic Transmission Depend on a Balance between Sigma-1 and Sigma-2 Receptor Expression
Sigma σ1 and σ2 receptors are targets of cocaine. Despite sharing a similar name, the two receptors are structurally unrelated and their physiological role is unknown. Cocaine increases the level of dopamine, a key neurotransmitter in CNS...
A Pocket Guide: investigation of the abuse of alcohol and a brief intervention
This Pocket Guide was summarized Guide 34 pages of the NIAAA, helping patients who drink too much: A guide clinical. Materials include:
- Educational brochures for patients
- Already formatted progress notes
- Animated slideshow for...
Guide for health care professionals - helping patients who drink too much
Guide aimed at professionals of health to work with people from drinking alcohol in excess
This guide has been written for primary care health and mental health professionals. It has been produced by the National Institute on the Alcohol...
Dual Disorders in Individuals under Treatment for both Alcohol and Cocaine
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Introduction: Descriptive data about co-occurrence of alcohol and cocaine consumption is scarce, despite its important prevalence. Dual disorders show high prevalence in clinical samples, and patients report worse evolution and...
The International Model of Alcohol Harms and Policies
The Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria have released The International Model of Alcohol Harms and Policies.
Comprising of a set of guidelines, methods, and tools this resource was produced with...
