Study finds that 25% of 7350 patients hospitalized between 2016 and 2021 for scooter-related injuries were using substances such as alcohol, opioids, marijuana and cocaine when injured. The findings underscore the urgent need to strengthen safety regulations, enforce helmet use, and reduce substance use among scooter riders.
Ines Iba帽ez-Tallon is revealing how an understudied region of the brain plays an outsized role in opioid and nicotine dependence.
Breanna Hollie, LCSW, a care coordinator for TASC (Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities, Inc.), closely follows the young people she refers for services through the Juvenile Justice Collaborative.
Lewis University Secures $170,000 Grant to Help Addiction Counseling Students
The road to sobriety is jagged and unpaved, with potholes and craters that can make it hard for those traveling on it to move forward.The Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Program at Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles, a part of the hospital鈥檚 Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, recently offered its teen and young adult patients a unique treatment method as they try to steer straight.
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More than 150 posters to be presented; counselors are available to comment on mental health topics ranging from substance use and addiction to wellness and self-care and more.
Researchers at UC San Diego have confirmed the presence of xylazine in the illicit drug supply at the U.S.-Mexico border. While xylazine remains less common in the Western U.S., border cities serve as key trafficking hubs and may have higher rates of emerging substances.
Teens and adults who started on stimulant medications for ADHD during via telehealth were on the whole no more likely to develop substance use disorders a year later, but young adults age 26-34 did have a higher risk. The findings could inform telehealth policy.
Researchers at WashU Medicine and Stanford University developed a compound that relieves pain in mice but doesn't affect the brain, thereby avoiding mind-altering side effects and abuse potential. The custom-designed molecule, derived from cannabis, may provide an alternative to opioids for treating chronic pain.
Neuroscience grads studied how to make opioids safer
While researchers have long spotlighted the role childhood abuse, poverty, and substance use play in human development, Virginia Tech鈥檚 Jungmeen Kim-Spoon is pulling back the curtain on what actually happens inside the brains of the young adults affected.聽 For the past 10 years,聽Kim-Spoon and her colleague Brooks Casas have co-led a research team that has tracked the brain function of teens.
People seeking online support for addiction recovery may encounter cynical marketing by the addiction treatment industry that sometimes prioritizes financial gain over clients鈥� health and well-being, according to a study of public discourse around substance use recovery on Twitter.
The combination of prescribed central nervous system stimulants, such as drugs that relieve ADHD symptoms, with prescribed opioid medications is associated with a pattern of escalating opioid intake, a new study has found.
The American Counseling Association, the world鈥檚 largest association representing more than 60,000 professional counselors, will hold its 2025 ACA Conference & Expo March 27-29 in Orlando.
People who live in rural areas may be benefiting from telehealth as a modality for substance use disorder treatment to a greater extent than their urban counterparts. Meanwhile, people with Medicaid are less likely to use telehealth than those with Medicare Advantage or commercial insurance
The Rutgers Center for Recovery and Wellbeing, in Plainfield, N.J., opens to provide hope for New Jerseyans trying to escape the cycle of substance use disorders.
The hearing aims to examine the public health and safety threats posed by illicit fentanyl and its analogues and to evaluate the need for permanent class-wide scheduling of these substances under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
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