The number of fatal overdoses among Black Philadelphians is more than 50 percent higher than it was before the city’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order, according to researchers from the Perelman School o...
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Vaping stresses and inflames lungs, causing subtle structural changes to proteins, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered from studying rats....
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Methamphetamine overdose deaths have surged over an eight-year period in the United States, a new study through the National Institutes on Health has found. The study, published in JAMA Psychiatry...
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation recently launched a campaign to drive business-led solutions to the opioid epidemic. The campaign, Sharing Solutions: A Virtual Nationwide Tour, is in part...
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Nearly 30 Oklahoma legislators announced they would be creating a bipartisan, bicameral legislative caucus to help legislators discuss bipartisan solutions to their state’s ongoing mental health and...
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Patients in the United States are prescribed disproportionally higher amounts of opioids after surgery regardless of pain severity, according to an International Patterns of Opioid Prescribing Workgro...
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In fiscal year 2021, states will spend $656 million on tobacco prevention and cessation programs out of the $26.9 billion they will receive from tobacco taxes and the 1998 tobacco settlement. This...
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Legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) that would expand research into the prevention and treatment of opioid addiction was signed into law on Thursday. The legislation, the Ex...
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A bipartisan group of state attorneys general is asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a progress report on the fight against opioids. In a letter to FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, the ...
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Researchers looking at combining two medications to treat methamphetamine disorder think their approach may be a safe and effective way to treat addicted adults. By combining injectable naltrexone...
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Between 2010 and 2017, the rates of pregnant women diagnosed with opioid use disorder spiked 131 percent, and babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) grew 82 percent, according to a U.S. D...
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A team of scientists, led by Duke University, have developed a bio-compatible surgical patch that releases nonopioid painkillers directly to the site of a wound. The polymer patch, made of poly(est...
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A new study suggests that collaboration between physicians and pharmacists may increase the adherence to and participant satisfaction of treatments for opioid use disorder. Researchers at Duke Uni...
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Using tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, before the age of 18 is a major contributor to becoming daily cigarette smokers, according to a University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim Scho...
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As the number of drug overdoses skyrockets, Gen. Barry McCaffrey (ret.) is urging Americans to protect its vulnerable substance use disorder patients. McCaffrey, former Director of the White House...
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released its plan to address the public health threat caused by viral hepatitis across the country. Call the “Viral Hepatitis National ...
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According to a Millennium Health study, urine drug test positivity for methamphetamine has increased 340 percent nationwide between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 31, 2019. The drug was found either alon...
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A new report published in the medical journal Thorax indicates smokers face an increased risk of hospitalization because of smoking and that smoking causes an increased risk of showing COVID-19 sympto...
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Civil engineers at Vanderbilt University are partnering with the Tennessee Department of Transportation to look into what kinds of transportation investment opportunities exist to help patients get to...
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Opioid use might increase a person’s risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to Rush University Medical Center researchers. As the rate of opioid use has increased in the United States, s...
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