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Less than half of people experiencing homelessness regularly used illicit drugs in the prior six months. The most common drugs used by this population aren't opioids but methamphetamines. And a significant percentage of people ...
Feb 19, 2025
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In the face of the alarming number of opioid-related deaths in the U.S., there have been national efforts to increase emergency clinician prescribing of buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder. In a ...
Feb 19, 2025
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After nearly a decade of almost year-over-year increases in overdose deaths, the tide may finally be turning in Philadelphia.
Feb 11, 2025
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In the early hours of September 14, 2021, three men parked in a quiet car park in the southern English market town of Abingdon-on-Thames. The men, returning from a night out, had pulled over to smoke heroin.
Feb 10, 2025
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A new study shows that cannabidiol (CBD) can reduce the craving for alcohol in people suffering from alcoholism. CBD is a natural component of the cannabis plant and has no intoxicating effects.
Jan 29, 2025
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Standardizing an assessment process currently used by doctors during care discussions with veterans at risk for suicide in another context could shed more light on the risks related to firearms and opioids.
Jan 28, 2025
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Along with claiming the lives of 1.2 million Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic has been described as a mass disabling event. Depending on the patient, long COVID can rob someone of energy, scramble the autonomic nervous system, ...
Jan 28, 2025
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, when fentanyl overdoses surged, doctors were desperate to find ways of helping their patients. They knew that buprenorphine could help people stop using opioids, but it was much harder to start ...
Jan 24, 2025
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A new study published in Addiction has found that opioid smoking appears to be associated with lower mortality risk compared with opioid injecting. The authors, however, caution that opioid smoking still carries a substantial ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Frank Wampol had a dark realization when he came across some alarming data a few years ago: More than 5,000 male construction workers die from suicide annually—five times the number who die from work-related injuries, according ...
Jan 18, 2025
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