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.
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.
The number of young children who accidentally ingested marijuana edibles between 2017 and 2021 – a period when marijuana became legal in more states – rose sharply, AP reports.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 includes billions of dollars in funding and several policy provisions that will make critical changes to the way our nation addresses addiction.
Find more of our must-reads in policy news, including the enactment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, which includes important addiction provisions.
View our curated digest of the latest research news, including the comparative effectiveness of two bundled implementation strategies in a randomized controlled trial to improve substance use treatment receipt among justice-involved youth.
The White House has launched a national data dashboard of non-fatal opioid overdoses, which shows more than 180,000 people overdosed on opioids and survived in the past year, CNN reports.
Federal regulators are proposing an update to federal treatment regulations for opioid use disorder, STAT reports. The update would make permanent COVID-era policies that allow take-home doses of methadone and the use of telehealth to access buprenorphine prescriptions.
A new report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General criticizes the Food and Drug Administration’s lack of oversight of online tobacco retailers.
The company that makes the opioid overdose antidote Narcan announced this week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has fast-tracked its application for an over-the-counter version of the treatment, CBS News reports.
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