Teleconferencing and regulatory adjustments are allowing a major four-state study on opioid-use disorder (OUD) treatments to continue despite the challenges posed by the stubborn SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)...
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Researchers at the University of Kentucky may have developed a multidisciplinary plan to treat those with opioid use disorder, a new study indicates. In 2018, the researchers treated 400 people wh...
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Opioid overdose deaths in Oregon spiked nearly 70 percent during April and May compared to the same period last year. In addition, overdose deaths during the first quarter of the year increased b...
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently awarded the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) $32 million over two years to address opioid-use disorders a...
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Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said a new report from his office and the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shows that the opioid epidemic is a serious public health emergency, being ma...
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Pennsylvania recently expanded the PA Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative (LETI) to include Dauphin and Northumberland counties. The initiative assists residents suffering from substance use disor...
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According to a new report by the U.S. House Joint Economic Committee, more than one in 3 adults in America report having depression or anxiety disorder symptoms. The report cited a survey by the U...
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U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) warned that the opioid epidemic is worsening in New Jersey last week due to continued stressors brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Gottheimer said that, acc...
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States should expand naloxone distribution in order to reach polysubstance users and abusers, says Beth Connolly, project director of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ substance use prevention and treatmen...
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The National Institutes of Health recently awarded the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Nursing a grant through its Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative. Nursing collegia...
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The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee released a new report on Thursday on how America’s failure to contain the coronavirus impacts American’s mental health. The Committee, led by U.S. Se...
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Researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences recently discovered SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can relieve pain, which may explain why nearly 50 percent of COVID-19 victims e...
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A partnership started by West Virginia University has received funding to develop and distribute materials to help state teachers support their students who may be dealing with a family member’s sub...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs recently awarded nearly $1 million in state grants to 13 higher education institutions for the prevention and reduction of opioid use among col...
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded a $2.3 million New Innovator Award to a University of Arizona professor to study the relationship between postpartum hormones and opioid relaps...
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Discovery Education have announced it is expanding Operation Prevention, a program to curb drug use by students through education. Through new mo...
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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific and medical journals have received thousands of papers, but many are substandard and were rushed to publication, an ethicist warned recently in the...
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The National Institute on Drug Abuse recently awarded more than $11 million to a Yale School of Medicine research team for its opioid use disorder initiative. The five-year initiative, Addressing R...
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People with substance use disorders (SUDs) are more vulnerable to COVID-19 and its most adverse health outcomes, according to a study recently published in Molecular Psychiatry. Researchers analyze...
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded a coalition of 11 Californian academic institutions and their community partners a $4.1 million grant to address COVID-19 in areas disproportio...
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