Newswise — Diane Calello, Executive and Medical Director of the New Jersey Poison Control Center,at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, is available to discuss the Centers for Disease…
Read more Rutgers Health Poison Control Expert Available to Discuss CDC Warning About TianeptineNewswise — Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research from Washington University in St.…
Read more Some mosquitoes like it hotBYLINE: Patti Zielinski Newswise — Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) — a behavioral intervention that integrates training in mindfulness, emotion regulation strategies and savoring of natural rewards — could…
Read more Mindfulness Could Help Women with Opioid Use Disorder Better Control Drug UrgesNewswise — SAN FRANCISCO — Although people with opioid use disorder (OUD) are significantly more likely to overdose or have a complication after major surgery than those without…
Read more Opioid use disorder treatment associated with decreased risk of overdose after surgery, suggests first-of-its-kind study of over 4 million surgeriesNewswise — CAMBRIDGE, MA — The genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus encodes 29 proteins, one of which is an ion channel called E. This channel, which transports protons…
Read more Targeting a coronavirus ion channel could yield new Covid-19 drugsEMBARGOED FOR USE UNTIL: 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Sept. 14, 2023 Newswise — Overdose deaths from fentanyl laced stimulants have risen 50-fold since 2010 The trend…
Read more Overdose deaths from fentanyl laced stimulants have risen 50-fold since 2010Newswise — CHAPEL HILL, NC – Anxiety remains one of the most diagnosed clinical symptoms in adolescence and is a potent precursor to and exacerbator of substance use…
Read more New Mental Health Partnership Looks to Explain Biological Factors Behind Substance Use in Adolescents Experiencing AnxietyNewswise — PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — For decades, efforts by police to seize illicit drugs have been a cornerstone strategy for disrupting drug markets and removing drugs from…
Read more Fatal overdoses rise after drug seizure, study findsNewswise — PHILADELPHIA—Penn Medicine is launching a new community mental health hub at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania — Cedar Avenue (HUP Cedar), co-locating inpatient and…
Read more Penn Medicine to Open New Crisis Response Center as Part of a Unified Mental Health Care Hub at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania – Cedar AvenueWhat: A new study in Psychological Medicine found an association between young men with cannabis use disorder and a higher risk of developing schizophrenia. Furthermore, intense cannabis use may…
Read more Cannabis use disorder and schizophrenia connection: expert says the drug, “seems to be amplifying some of the consequences that we are seeing”Newswise — Gentrification doesn’t erase drug crime and gun violence. Instead, research from West Virginia University economist Zachary Porreca shows that when one urban block becomes upwardly mobile, organized criminal…
Read more Gun violence spills into new neighborhoods as gentrification displaces drug crimeAccording to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 13.5% of young adults aged 18 to 25 had both a substance use disorder and some form of…
Read more Substance use disorder expert available for commentNewswise — CLEVELAND—As cocaine use continues to climb across the United States, scientists have struggled to develop an effective pharmacological approach to treat the devastating disorder. But by…
Read more New study reveals ketamine could be effective treatment for cocaine-use disordersNewswise — As a growing number of older adults are experimenting with cannabis to help alleviate chronic symptoms, a new University of California San Diego School of Medicine…
Read more Cannabis-Related Emergency Department Visits among Older Adults on the RiseNewswise — There are no simple solutions to America’s deadly overdose epidemic, which costs 100,000 lives each year and is erasing gains in life expectancy. But a team…
Read more Study suggests one solution to America’s opioid epidemic: Tell doctors their patients fatally overdosedNewswise — While some feared that New Yorkers would re-fill prescriptions to stockpile opioid medications in the early weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown much in the way people…
Read more COVID lockdown did not lead to a rush on opioid prescriptionsNewswise — People with opioid-use disorder who enter treatment are at risk for relapse, overdose or death if they engage in less than two outpatient visits in their…
Read more Outpatient Visits Are Critical to Success of Treating Opioid-Use Disorder, Researchers FindNewswise — NEW ORLEANS — Although there has been no decrease in the number of opioid prescriptions seniors receive after surgery, the doses of those prescriptions are lower,…
Read more Opioid prescribing after surgery remains the same for seniors, but doses are lower, study showsNewswise — NEW ORLEANS — Although opioid abuse in the U.S. is trending downward overall, it remains higher among non-heterosexuals than heterosexuals, according to an analysis of national…
Read more Opioid abuse decreases during pandemic, yet higher rates persist for sexual minorities
