Oklahoma Rep. Cyndi Munson (D-District 85) hosted a study Tuesday to look into the public health risks presented by Loperamide when used to relieve opioid withdrawal symptoms. The drug found in ov...
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According to a new survey, vaping marijuana and nicotine rose sharply over the past three years for college-aged adults, even while the use of other drugs decreased. Results from the 2019 Monitori...
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U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) urged Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to use money allocated by the CARES Act to address rising drug abuse and mental health issues in a letter Monday. A...
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A new study from the National Institutes of Health has found that people with substance use disorders are more susceptible to COVID-19 and complications that arise from it. The research, published...
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The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism recently awarded a $1.3 million grant to Joseph Ditre, a Syracuse University associate professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Science...
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Data from the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, a report released Friday from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, shows that while substance misuse and mental ill...
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Approximately 3.6 million young people in the United States used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days, according to a National Youth Tobacco Survey conducted in partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Adm...
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A total of 13.2 percent of Americans 18 and older took antidepressant medication in the past 30 days during 2015–2018, according to a study by the National Center for Health Statistics. Antidepre...
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The Ohio Opioid Education Alliance launched a new public service announcement campaign last week in central Ohio aimed at warning parents and caregivers about the increase in substance abuse and menta...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant to the American Dental Association Science & Research Institute (ADASRI) and the University of Pittsburgh to cre...
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Pat Ryan, county executive for Ulster County, N.Y., recently proposed a more than $670,000 opioid-use prevention plan as part of the 2021 Executive Budget. Ulster County declared a Public Health Em...
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Funding has been allocated to non-intrusive inspection (NII) technology, and its effectiveness is being tested, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials. NII technology uses x-r...
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Opioid prescription rates for outpatient knee surgery vary nationwide, according to a study recently published in BMJ Open. “We found massive levels of variation in the proportion of patients w...
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Researchers at Penn State University have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm they think can not only identify homeless youth who are most likely to develop a substance use disorder, but al...
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A new report from the Illinois Department of Human Services has found that residents in Chicago’s West Side feel that an Overdose Prevention Site would benefit their communities. As part of a re...
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The number of people dying from illicit opioids, stimulants such as methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine has risen sharply over the last few years, a recent report issued by the American Medical Associ...
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Second Lady Karen Pence, U.S. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) and Bacon’s wife, Angie, recently visited the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)/Nebraska Medicine to hear about UNMC’s Behavioral Hea...
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A new survey of American adults has found that they do not recognize which drugs were opioids and which were not. The study, by DrFirst, a healthcare technology consulting service, asked 1,000 adu...
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U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Patty Murray (D-WA) are calling on the Trump administration to continue its crackdown on the vaping industry after a recent Stanford University study found that yo...
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The majority of people taking opioid painkillers for chronic back pain produced antibodies against the drugs, according to a recent University of Wisconsin- Madison study. These antibodies may be...
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