This study sourced data from the Ethanol, Neurodevelopment, Infant and Child Health (ENRICH) cohort which recruited women with a singleton pregnancy at the University of New Mexico affiliated prenatal care clinics.
Researchers analyzed data to determine housing outcomes for adults who were homeless at admission to substance use disorder treatment programs.
The review authors sought to elucidate the neurological harms of methamphetamine, which are well-documented but poorly understood.
This review explores the cardiovascular consequences of opioids and the contributions of off-target electrophysiologic properties to mortality, and provides practical safety recommendations.
The researchers studied mothers of infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome and/or prenatal substance exposure and whether they received treatment for substance use disorder.
More than 50% of patients with alcohol use disorder develop alcohol withdrawal symptoms within hours of discontinuing or decreasing alcohol use.
Researchers attempted to determine if medications for opioid use disorder integrated with infectious disease measures can lead to better infectious disease outcomes.
Study data published in PLoS One suggest that gender minority (GM) adolescents may engage in substance use more frequently than their peers.
With overdose deaths spiking during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, data was not disaggregated by month, race/ethnicity, or other social attributes. The study investigators utilized data from emergency medical services in racial/ethnic, social, and geographic trends in overdose-related cardiac arrests.
With drug use rising, society requires new prevention approaches. The not-for-profit Center for US Policy (CUSP) announced a national contest to identify the “Top 5 Emerging Practices to Prevent Substance Misuse.”
