ALLMedicine™ Substance Use Center

Aug 14th, 2022 - Syndemics are co-occurring epidemics that cluster within populations due to shared socio-structural factors and are often in populations with intersecting forms of vulnerability. Suicide, depression, and substance use all disproportionately affect...

Aug 13th, 2022 - This study aimed to examine the prospective association between tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use with attaining employment among unemployed job seekers. Data from the French population-based CONSTANCES cohort on 5114 unemployed job seeking adults...

Aug 13th, 2022 - To evaluate the long-term functional, psychological, and emotional outcomes in individuals who survived violence-related injuries as children. We retrospectively identified all pediatric patients (age <18y at time of injury) treated for a violent ...

Aug 13th, 2022 - Studies among the Mexican population have suggested that stigma towards persons who use drugs (PWUD) may act as a barrier to treatment seeking and contribute to negative health consequences. However, there has not been a validated scale to measure...

Aug 13th, 2022 - This review outlines the psychiatric comorbidities associated with persistent opioid use in the postoperative period. We finish our analysis with evidence-based, patient-centered interventions that can be rendered in the perioperative setting to d...

Jul 3rd, 2022 - Take-Home Naloxone (THN) is a core intervention aimed at addressing the toxic illicit opioid drug supply crisis. Although THN programs are available in all provinces and territories throughout Canada, there are currently no standardized guidelines...

Feb 16th, 2022 - Dozens of papers have examined the lingering mental health effects of COVID-19, but many have measured conditions such as depression and brain fog only a few months after infection. Now, a giant new study shows people who contracted COVID-19 faced...

Jan 27th, 2022 - Misuse of marijuana (the drug is generally referred to as marijuana for the smoked or ingested substance and cannabis for plant parts or derivatives) is one of the most prevalent substance use disorders, particularly among young adults, and the de...

Jun 11th, 2021 - Management of Mental Health Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and Suicide in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury: Clinical Practice Guideline for Healthcare Providers.|2021|Bombardier CH,Azuero CB,Fann JR,Kautz DD,Richards JS,|psychology,psychology,

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...

Aug 12th, 2022 - Previous studies have shown that the opioid receptor modulator nalmefene can reduce heavy drinking among alcoholics. Genetic variation at the micro-opioid receptor gene locus, OPRM1, specifically the A118G polymorphism, is associated with differen...

Aug 12th, 2022 - This proposal aims to systematically examine the safety and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) profile and the physiologic, neuroendocrine and behavioral stress and pain responses to acute single doses and repeated dosing of oral tablet formu...

Aug 12th, 2022 - Objective: To determine genetic variants as well as behavioral measures across different study group populations. Results of these will be used as regressors to help explain inter-individual differences in data collected across IRP protocols. Stud...

Aug 12th, 2022 - Brief motivational interventions (BMIs) to reduce risky drinking in college students are well established as beneficial, but the needs of emerging adult (EA) risky drinkers who live in disadvantaged communities and are not fulltime college student...

Aug 12th, 2022 - We propose to investigate reward and pain circuitry in cannabis use and depression comorbidity, two highly prevalent conditions in PLWH. We will focus on young adults (ages 18-34) to minimize HIV neuronal chronicity effects and in light of the hig...

Aug 15th, 2022 - FDA Expands Home Testing Guidelines for COVID Exposures The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided new guidance for at-home COVID testing last week. Three tests instead of two: After an exposure, the FDA now recommends people who have no s...

Aug 12th, 2022 - "Why am I not asking for help?" This is the question Mary Taylor, MD, a pediatric cardiologist and pediatric critical care physician, asked herself after realizing she had alcohol use disorder (AUD). "If I had a medical condition, I would ask for ...

Aug 5th, 2022 - San Diego internist David B. Bittleman, MD, was finishing an appointment with a patient when the man's caregiver slipped Bittleman a note as the patient walked out of the room. Dr David Bittleman "Call me tomorrow," the mysterious message read. Bi...

Aug 3rd, 2022 - Monkeypox Cases Escalate, but Clinicians Don't Need to Worry, According to Experts US clinicians do not need to start worrying about monkeypox just yet, despite global fatalities reported this past week, according to public health experts. Cases r...

Aug 2nd, 2022 - Efforts to prevent and curb substance use in schools through public health engagement (PHE) appear to be effective where use of cigarettes and cannabis is high but had the opposite impact in schools where use of alcohol and cannabis is low, accord...