Severe flooding may contribute to higher mortality rates from opioid use in rural Appalachia, according to a study by researchers at Penn State. The findings—published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences—are ...
Jul 20, 2026
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From headlines and social media, psychedelic therapies, cannabis use and GLP-1 medications have seemingly become commonplace overnight, but the science underlying these treatments and the pathway to drug approval are often ...
Jul 20, 2026
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There has been a substantial increase in recent years in the use of a form of primary medication to treat opioid use disorder, according to a Rutgers Health study published in Health Affairs. Researchers have also noted sharp ...
Jul 7, 2026
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Drug awareness and prevention programs have often relied on shock tactics—graphic stories, fear-based messaging and one-time assemblies meant to scare students into avoiding illicit drugs. But evidence suggests those approaches ...
Jun 18, 2026
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Helping hospitalized patients begin treatment for opioid use disorder may improve outcomes at a reasonable financial cost, according to a study co-led by investigators at Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University. The analysis, ...
Jun 15, 2026
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Important mental health history is often present in medical records but hard to find, especially when it is missing from the diagnosis codes that clinicians, researchers, and health systems use to search for and count conditions.
Jun 8, 2026
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Major health events increase the risk of housing instability and homelessness among Medicaid enrollees, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. These findings shed new light on the ...
Jun 3, 2026
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A collaborative study out of Mass General Brigham and RTI International has examined which opioid crisis-fighting strategies help communities achieve the highest return on investment in terms of lives saved.
May 28, 2026
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Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have found that embedding addiction treatment into primary care training clinics may be a promising approach to addressing substance use disorders (SUDs). Published in the journal ...
May 23, 2026
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Within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), 30% of hospitalizations for alcohol use disorder (AUD) result in medications for AUD (MAUD) initiation as an inpatient or within seven days of discharge, according to a study ...
May 14, 2026
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