Fatal Poisonings Among Infants and Young Children in the United States

Synthesising evidence of the effects of COVID-19 regulatory changes on methadone treatment

Not all vaping is the same: differential pulmonary effects of vaping cannabidiol versus nicotine

The Howard Street Method

The Use of Opioids in the Management of Chronic Pain.

State Cannabis Legalization and Psychosis.

Buprenorphine Dispensing Among Youth Aged ≤19 Years in the United States.

A patient recently said to me, “At this point in my life, recovery is not only how I live, it’s who I am.” Although I realize – and have helped him understand – that recurrences can occur in the course of the chronic disease that is addiction, I was able to celebrate with him that he is now “right where he needs to be.”

According to results from the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, nearly 1 in 3 adults in America had either a substance use disorder (SUD) or any mental illness (AMI) in the past year, almost half of all young adults had either a SUD or AMI, and for many with either (SUD or AMI) the COVID pandemic was a global stressor (NSDUH). Not often captured by NSDUH surveys, incarcerated individuals represent a broad population at high risk for opioid use disorder (OUD) and opioid-overdose deaths.

Pain and addiction have a close relationship. For example, research has shown that three days of opioids prescribed for acute postoperative pain can increase the chances of chronic opioid use.