ALLMedicine™ Addiction Center

Jan 18th, 2022 - Cocaine Use Disorder (CUD) is one of the diseases with the greatest social and health impact, due to the high cost of rehabilitation management and the high risk of dangerous behavior and relapse. This pathology frequently leads to unsuccessful at...

Jan 18th, 2022 - Our aims were to understand how hospital staff who are skilled at managing aggressive patients recognize and respond to patient aggression and to compare the approaches of skilled staff to the experiences of staff who were recently involved in inc...

Jan 17th, 2022 - Methamphetamine use is rising globally and we have limited treatments for this. Subgroups within the diverse methamphetamine-using population may have distinct treatment needs. Among a community-recruited sample of people who use crystal methamphe...

Jan 17th, 2022 - During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, concerns were raised about the potential impact of pandemic-related social distancing measures on existing health disparities among sexual and gender minority (SGM) young adults, including HIV transmission ris...

Jan 16th, 2022 - Repeated pairing of a drug with a neutral stimulus, such as a cue or context, leads to the attribution of the drug's reinforcing properties to that stimulus, and exposure to that stimulus in the absence of the drug can elicit drug-seeking. A princ...

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...

Apr 1st, 2019 - Substance use disorders in pregnancy: clinical, ethical, and research imperatives of the opioid epidemic: a report of a joint workshop of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and American So...

Sep 29th, 2018 - In 2016, there were 44.7 million adults affected by mental illness, and 20.1 million people aged 12 years or older affected by substance use disorder. More than 8.2 million Americans are afflicted with co-occurring disorders or dual diagnosis, suc...

Jan 14th, 2022 - This research aims to refine and rigorously test a collaborative care model for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and depression, anxiety disorder, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in primary care. The investigators will also examine...

Jan 14th, 2022 - Three hundred-twenty (320) adult smokers of menthol or non-menthol combustible cigarettes will be recruited and randomly assigned to one of five groups (n=64/group), who will be asked to switch for 12 weeks to ad libitum use of combustible cigaret...

Jan 13th, 2022 - Seventy adult outpatients seeking treatment for substance use from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Addictions Program will be randomized to receive immediate or delayed (eight weeks) access to a web-based DBT skills training interventio...

Jan 12th, 2022 - BACKGROUND: Our research group has made extensive use of ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to understand people s daily experiences with opioid craving, use, and lapse. We have also administered clinic-based psychotherapies such as cognitive-b...

Jan 12th, 2022 - Problem Statement: This proposal addresses the problem of youth not being adequately supported as they attempt to transition out of homelessness. This problem leads to frequent cycling in and out of homelessness, protracted periods of homelessness...

Jan 5th, 2022 - (Reuters Health) - Only very low-quality evidence supports the efficacy of the various hangover cures that have been studied in randomized clinical trials, researchers conclude in a new review. A systematic review of 21 randomized clinical trials ...

Jan 3rd, 2022 - Geoffrey R. Oxnard, MD Investigators hope selpercatinib (LOXO-292), a highly selective RET inhibitor, will demonstrate potential as a new standard of care (SOC) for patients with advanced or metastatic treatment-naïve RET fusion—positive non–smal...

Jan 2nd, 2022 - New Year revellers are never short of advice on how to recover from drinking too much alcohol, but the disappointing reality is that the effectiveness of many so-called 'hangover cures' lack good scientific evidence. That is the conclusion of UK r...

Dec 30th, 2021 - Gabapentinoids, serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), tricyclic antidepressants, and sodium channel blockers were more likely than placebo to improve diabetic neuropathy pain, according to a new practice guideline from the American...

Dec 30th, 2021 - Amidst the pandemic's second wave in the fall of 2020, Tiffany Swedeen, RN, a nurse in recovery from substance use disorder, was struggling. Working at an intensive care unit near Seattle for the better part of 16 years, she was used to caring for...