ALLMedicine™ Addiction Center

Sep 25th, 2022 - Gambling disorder is a high comorbid disorder in substance abusers which conjunct appearance is related to worse symptomatology and evolution. Nevertheless, the research on the risk factors that may explain this comorbidity is scarce. We build of ...

Sep 25th, 2022 - Objective: Substance use disorders are associated with significant cognitive impairments causing many individual or social problems besides poor treatment outcomes. The cognitive remediation method is effective in so many neuropsychiatric disorder...

Sep 25th, 2022 - As real time soccer gambling is becoming a game of choice for many Nigerian youths, there is need to examine some predictive factors that could account for risky decision making in the population. We combined some cognitive tasks (memory, concentr...

Sep 25th, 2022 - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer people and minority gender identities and sexualities (LGBTIQ+) are often stigmatized and experience discrimination in health care settings, leading to poorer mental health outcomes and unmet ne...

Sep 25th, 2022 - Indifference to harmful consequences is one of the main characteristics of compulsive behaviors and addiction. Animal models that provide a rapid and effective measure of resistance to punishment could be critical for the investigation of mechanis...

Jul 25th, 2022 - Cannabis potency, defined as the concentration of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), has increased internationally, which could increase the risk of adverse health outcomes for cannabis users. We present, to our knowledge, the first systematic review ...

Dec 16th, 2021 - The ASAM Clinical Practice Guideline on Alcohol Withdrawal Management RELEASE DATE: May 2020 PRIOR VERSION: 2004 American Society of Addiction Medicine guideline on management of alcohol withdrawal delirium DEVELOPER: American Society of Addiction...

Jan 25th, 2021 - Opioid-related morbidity and mortality have risen in many settings globally. It is critical that practitioners who work with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) provide timely, evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). Such treatment...

Sep 11th, 2020 - : The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Clinical Practice Guideline on Alcohol Withdrawal Management provides guidance on the identification and management of alcohol withdrawal in adults with varying degrees of syndrome severity. The ...

Mar 27th, 2020 - : A Focused Update of the ASAM National Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder is published in the current issue of the Journal of Addiction Medicine. The focused update included a search of Medline's PubMed database from Janu...

Sep 23rd, 2022 - Objective: Despite recent advances in addiction neuroscience, achieving a breakthrough in predicting addiction treatment outcome has been difficult and long-term abstinence success unacceptably low. The aim of this study is to create a biomarker u...

Sep 23rd, 2022 - Medication-assisted treatment, the current standard for opioid addiction, is the use of medications in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies to provide a "whole-patient" approach to the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). Howeve...

Sep 23rd, 2022 - There is an unmet need for implementing a clinically superior behavioral therapy intervention for medication-assisted treatment of opioid use disorder. One strategy for fighting the opioid epidemic is to improve treatment and detoxification progra...

Sep 23rd, 2022 - One of the most challenging issues in modern medicine is the current opioid epidemic. Given the association between opioid use after surgery and the development of opioid addiction, an essential goal of the medical community should be to develop s...

Sep 23rd, 2022 - Aim 1: We will conduct a prospective study of 60 PWUD hospitalized at UAB. Using a standardized survey, we will elicit HIV risk behaviors, substance use, and HIV-related stigma. We will use the 14-item Behavioral Risk Assessment for Infectious Dis...

Sep 29th, 2022 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic toll of the opioid addiction and overdose crisis on the United States reached nearly $1.5 trillion in 2020 alone and is likely to grow, a congressional report seen by Reuters sho...

Sep 28th, 2022 - Nightmares May Predict Dementia Healthy middle-aged adults who have nightmares once a week or more were four times more likely to develop dementia within a decade, new research suggests. The results were reported in a study published in The Lancet...

Sep 27th, 2022 - Spironolactone, a potassium-sparing diuretic typically used to treat heart failure and hypertension, shows promise in treating alcohol use disorder (AUD), new research suggests. Researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Natio...

Sep 27th, 2022 - New research shows that SBIRT — screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for drug misuse — is effective at preventing substance use in adolescents in a variety of clinical settings. In a collection of 12 articles published as a sup...

Sep 22nd, 2022 - (Reuters) - CVS Health Corp and Walmart Inc have agreed to pay $147.5 million to settle West Virginia's claims over their alleged roles in the state's opioid crisis, state attorney general Patrick Morrisey said Tuesday. CVS agreed to pay $82.5 mil...