Medications
Expert discusses promising efforts to mitigate the opioid crisis
For the last 20 years or so, the U.S. has seen a significant increase in opioid and drug overdoses overall.
Nov 10, 2022
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Health
Much work needs to be done to change the US smoking rate, experts say
Every year, the Great American Smokeout draws attention to preventing deaths and chronic illness caused by smoking. Almost 38 million Americans, including nearly one million in New Jersey, still smoke tobacco and about half ...
Nov 9, 2022
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Genetics
Genetics may explain link between unhealthy teen lifestyles and accelerated biological aging
Genetics may help explain the link between unhealthy lifestyles and accelerated biological aging in young adulthood, according to findings published today in eLife.
Nov 8, 2022
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Medical economics
3-step framework helps health care systems identify high-need, high-cost patients
Researchers from the RTI-University of North Carolina (UNC) Evidence-based Practice Center, Research Triangle Park, NC developed a 3-step process to help health care systems identify high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients. ...
Nov 8, 2022
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Medications
Oral ENT-01 safe, significantly improves constipation in persons with Parkinson disease
A randomized controlled trial of 150 persons with Parkinson disease has found that (oral squalamine phosphate) ENT-01 is safe for up to 25 days of treatment and significantly improves constipation and possibly neurological ...
Nov 7, 2022
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Addiction
Substance use disorders linked to poor health outcomes in wide range of physical health conditions
People who have a past history of hospitalization because of substance use disorders have much worse outcomes following the onset of a wide range of physical health conditions, according to researchers in the UK and Czechia.
Nov 3, 2022
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Genetics
Researchers delve deep into the genetics of addiction
Danielle Dick, a professor of psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School who leads the Rutgers Addiction Research Center, has spent decades hunting genes that contribute to drug and alcohol addiction.
Nov 2, 2022
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Addiction
School policing and disciplining may lead to student substance abuse
In new research in the journal Addictive Behaviors, public health researchers find that the prevalence of school discipline and school policing—core elements of the school-to-prison pipeline—predict subsequent school-average ...
Oct 26, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers study adolescent recovery from post-traumatic stress symptoms
Children in the United States may be exposed to a high rate of adverse experiences that result in post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), which can appear as feelings of stress, fear and helplessness that result from re-experiencing ...
Oct 26, 2022
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HIV & AIDS
Treating addictions in patients with HIV
Given the benefits of antiretroviral treatment, for many individuals with HIV, substance use disorder—including opioid, alcohol, and tobacco use disorder—is a greater threat to their health than the virus. Although medications ...
Oct 20, 2022
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