ALLMedicine™ Substance Use Center

Oct 30th, 2020 - Most adolescents presenting to community mental health centers have one or more comorbidities (internalizing, externalizing, and substance use problems). We evaluated an integrated family-based outpatient treatment for adolescents (OPT-A) that can...

Oct 30th, 2020 - Substance use in pregnancy, including alcohol use, drug use, or smoking, is associated with poor health outcomes for both the mother and her unborn child. Building on previous research that has examined the cumulative impact of Adverse Childhood E...

Oct 30th, 2020 - Objectives: About 65%-87% of substance use disorder patients smoke cigarettes, compared to 14% of the general adult population. Few substance use treatment centers (SUTCs) have comprehensive tobacco-free workplace (TFW) policies or offer tobacco i...

Oct 30th, 2020 - To assess the burden of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) among privately-insured patients with anxiety disorder and/or substance use disorders (SUD). Adults <65 years old were identified in the OptumHealth Care Solutions, Inc. database (07/200...

Oct 29th, 2020 - In recent years, advances in experimental psychology have led to a better understanding in automatic, unconscious processes, referred to as attentional and approach biases amongst individuals with substance use disorders. Attentional biases refer ...

Mar 26th, 2020 - March 23, 2020, marked the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which, despite some ups and downs over the past decade, has expanded the scope of coverage for millions of people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders (SUDs).

Nov 5th, 2019 - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) collects information on thousands of state-licensed providers who specialize in treating substance use disorders, addiction, and mental illness.

Oct 22nd, 2019 - Pediatricians have unique opportunities and an increasing sense of responsibility to promote healthy social-emotional development of children and to prevent and address their mental health and substance use conditions. In this report, the American...

Jul 31st, 2019 - The use of electronic health records (EHR) data in research to inform recruitment and outcomes is considered a critical element for pragmatic studies. However, there is a lack of research on the availability of substance use disorder (SUD) treatme...

Jun 26th, 2019 - Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness with important implications for morbidity and mortality. This population-based cohort study examined the impact of schizophrenia diagnoses on all-cause mortality among a sample of people living with HIV (PL...

Oct 30th, 2020 - Most adolescents presenting to community mental health centers have one or more comorbidities (internalizing, externalizing, and substance use problems). We evaluated an integrated family-based outpatient treatment for adolescents (OPT-A) that can...

Oct 30th, 2020 - Substance use in pregnancy, including alcohol use, drug use, or smoking, is associated with poor health outcomes for both the mother and her unborn child. Building on previous research that has examined the cumulative impact of Adverse Childhood E...

Oct 30th, 2020 - Objectives: About 65%-87% of substance use disorder patients smoke cigarettes, compared to 14% of the general adult population. Few substance use treatment centers (SUTCs) have comprehensive tobacco-free workplace (TFW) policies or offer tobacco i...

Oct 30th, 2020 - To assess the burden of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) among privately-insured patients with anxiety disorder and/or substance use disorders (SUD). Adults <65 years old were identified in the OptumHealth Care Solutions, Inc. database (07/200...

Oct 29th, 2020 - In recent years, advances in experimental psychology have led to a better understanding in automatic, unconscious processes, referred to as attentional and approach biases amongst individuals with substance use disorders. Attentional biases refer ...

Oct 25th, 2020 - In addition to screening adolescent patients at least once a year for substance use, it's important that pediatricians build relationships with other behavioral health providers and develop a strategy for ensuring that teens with substance use iss...

Oct 18th, 2020 - (Reuters Health) - Adults with substance use problems may be more likely to misuse opioids on days when they use cannabis, a study in New York suggests. Researchers examined data from 13,271 days of observation for 211 adults who had problem subst...

Oct 11th, 2020 - Adolescent alcohol use among boys was prospectively associated with use of legal performance-enhancing substances in young adulthood, based on prospective cohort data from more than 12,000 individuals, wrote Kyle T. Ganson, PhD, MSW, of the Univer...

Oct 4th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Substance use disorders (SUD), particularly opioid addiction and smoking, are tied to an increased risk for COVID-19 and serious adverse outcomes ...

Oct 1st, 2020 - The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is charging 345 individuals — including more than 100 physicians, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals — with submitting more than $6 billion in false and fraudulent claims to federal health programs ...