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Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), announced the 2024 State Opioid Response (SOR) and Tribal Opioid Response (TOR) Notices of Funding…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Compared to taking a daily pill, a monthly dose of long-acting injectable (LAI) buprenorphine can be a…

1. IntroductionBoth Canada and the United States are experiencing overdose crisis from opioids and other drugs. In 2016, Canada declared the opioid crisis a national public health concern, while British Columbia declared a public health…

by Douglas Sutherland, Senior Economist, US Desk, Economics Department. Case and Deaton (2017) highlighted increasing midlife mortality due to suicides and drug and alcohol abuse since the late 1990s contributing to relatively modest…

Talal says the results of the study indicate that telemedicine can be an important way to improve access to health care for underserved populations. Credit: Sandra…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Dec. 19, 2019 COLUMBIA, S.C. - The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and S.C. Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services (DAODAS) welcomed United States Surgeon General Vice…

Drug overdoses are a leading cause of unintentional death in the United States. The major force behind this epidemic is prescription and non-prescription opioid drugs. All ages and communities everywhere are affected by opioid…

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The Naloxone Distribution Project, one of California’s critical harm reduction programs, is now offering fentanyl test strips as another tool to curb rising deaths from fentanyl contamination. SACRAMENTO — As…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For most people, recovering from an injury or surgery might require a short round of painkillers, but…

By: Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS, FAAP & Rita Agarwal, MD, FAAP An overdose crisis is affecting children, adolescents and adults across the United States. Most drug overdoses in young people are caused by opioids.…

By: Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS, FAAP & Rita Agarwal, MD, FAAPAn overdose crisis is affecting children, adolescents and adults across the United States. Most drug overdoses in young people are caused by opioids.…

With a national increase in opioid usage and overdoses, the Bethlehem Health Bureau introduced a program to provide Narcan nasal spray to all residents in Northampton County free of charge.  …

Elevated markers of DNA damage in striatal neurons associated with OUD and chronic morphine in rhesus macaque. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI:…

Kyiv, Ukraine. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Medications to treat opioid use disorder, including methadone and buprenorphine, have…

Kyiv, Ukraine. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Medications to treat opioid use disorder, including methadone and buprenorphine, have…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain US officials announced Thursday that Endo Health Solutions (EHSI) agreed to pay around $2 billion to…

The expansion of telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with individuals staying in treatment longer and reducing their risk of medically treated overdose, according to a new study. Published today in JAMA…

“It was honestly a surprise,” Airan said. “We saw a very clear sex difference. The change was pretty prominent in the males, and just not there in the females.” To investigate this unexpected discrepancy, the researchers designed a…

Looking for safe analgesics and adjuncts and repurposing existing medications to treat different pain entities are still challenges in pain research. The medicinal arsenal for treating mild to severe forms of acute pain includes…

1. IntroductionOpioid analgesics (OAs), a highly effective pain-relieving medication group, are available as one possible option for the treatment of severe chronic non-tumor pain (CNTP) . The German evidence-based guideline provides…

Attorney General Jennings Announces $150 Million Settlement with…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cannabis is not an effective treatment for opioid addiction, a new study of thousands of people being…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Many states have passed new laws that place restrictions on the duration of first-time opioid…

The expanded availability of opioid use disorder-related telehealth services and medications during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a lowered likelihood of fatal drug overdose among Medicare beneficiaries, according to a new…

Research Brief State Medicaid provides coverage of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) for at least six months. A panel of experts rated how they expect this type of policy to affect four outcomes: OUD treatment engagement,…

Research Brief Require insurers (private and public) to include at least two Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medication types for opioid use disorder (OUD) (e.g., methadone and buprenorphine) on the preferred drug list…

Dr. Shah welcomes Megan Moncur, FDA’s Associate Director of…

The NIEHS Worker Training Program (WTP), together with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), recently published the first Recovery Friendly Workplace Landscape Analysis. The report catalogs efforts across 31…

For Release MondayDecember 4, 2023 The rise in child suicides in the United States since 2010 was fueled in part by the nation's opioid crisis, which previous studies found increased rates of child neglect and altered…

Short Title: CORC Initial Announcement Back to the Grants Dashboard Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) NOFO Number:…

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is announcing awards in five grant programs devoted to combating multiple facets of substance misuse and…

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As part of President Biden’s Unity Agenda priority to beat the overdose epidemic, federal agencies are working with housing and support services providers to improve access to life-saving measures like naloxone, destigmatize substance…

Credit: Michael S. Helfenbein In cases of opioid use disorder, short-term medically managed withdrawal (commonly known as detox) and…

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Lt. Governor Hall-Long, NFL Hall of Famer Randy White Kick Off Coaches vs. Overdoses…

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Building on California’s comprehensive approach to fight the opioid crisis — including a billion dollar Master Plan — today the state is launching Opioids.CA.GOV, a one-stop-shop for Californians seeking…

1 Introduction The onset of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation generated diminished access to healthcare services and medicines nationwide. The reduction in access is particularly pronounced for residents near…

Discussion This report highlights several findings: 1) rates of nonfatal opioid-involved overdose EMS encounters per 10,000 total EMS encounters increased steadily from 2018 through the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; 2) nonfatal…

In 2016, 115 Americans died every day from an opioid overdose – that is more than 42,000 drug overdose deaths that involved an opioid including prescription opioids, heroin, and/or illicitly manufactured fentanyl. Prescription…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A 20-year Australian study has found no evidence to suggest cannabis reduces illicit opioid use, and it may not…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A cancer diagnosis can greatly disrupt treatment with methadone, a medication used to treat patients…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The number of patients admitted with opioid use disorder (OUD) and injection-related infections who…

Credit: HeroTech8 Researchers from King's College London used real-world data of fatal opioid overdoses where a bystander was present to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Starting buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder through telehealth was associated with an…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A newly developed prediction model may be able to calculate the risk of opioid relapse among…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Emergency departments (EDs) are critical settings for treating opioid use disorder, but few ED…

BackgroundEfforts to reduce the risk of opioid misuse are often focused on reducing unnecessary prescriptions for opioid medications or reducing the dose prescribed; however, not all misuse occurs in individuals with a personal…

Methods CDC, in collaboration with the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) and with funding from the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)’s Office of the Secretary Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund…