We curate a digest of the latest news in our field for advocates, policymakers, community coalitions and all who work toward shaping policies and practices to effectively prevent substance use and treat addiction.
The federal government is taking a number of steps to crack down on fentanyl smuggling along the southern border, President Biden said Tuesday night in his State of the Union address.
As more data emerges on marijuana’s health effects, policymakers are seeking to increase regulation and oversight of the loosely regulated marijuana marketplace, Politico reports.
Nearly two-thirds of adults support prohibiting menthol cigarette sales, while more than half support banning all tobacco product sales, according to a new survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
View our curated digest of the latest research news, including the association between state cannabis legalization and psychosis-related health care utilization.
View our curated digest of the latest research news, including an examination of awareness of, susceptibility to and use of oral nicotine pouches in young adults as well as comparative risk perceptions with smokeless tobacco.
Changes in addiction medication prescribing rules implemented during the pandemic did not increase the proportion of opioid overdose deaths involving buprenorphine, according to a new study.
View our curated digest of the latest research news, including the potential for individual risk factors to predict substance use treatment course patterns.
Allowing specially trained pharmacists to prescribe medication to treat opioid use disorder can greatly increase rates of continued care, a new study finds.
As the number of patients with opioid use disorder who develop the life-threatening heart condition endocarditis increases, hospitals are struggling to provide adequate treatment, STAT reports.
The number of people age 65 and up involved in marijuana-related emergency room visits in California jumped from 2005 to 2019, according to new research.
View our curated digest of the latest research news, including the association between prenatal cannabis use disorder and infant hospitalization or death in the first year of life.
A new study finds that notifying doctors about a patient’s fatal opioid overdose reduced the number of opioid prescriptions they wrote for up to a year, UPI reports.
The newly launched national 988 mental health hotline is receiving a high volume of calls, texts and chat messages, AP reports. The helpline received 154,585 more calls, texts and chat messages in November 2022 compared with the old national lifeline in November 2021.
View our curated digest of the latest research news, including the association between the early onset of alcohol, smokeless tobacco and marijuana use with adult binge drinking in the United States.
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