Addiction Medicine
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Highly processed foods ‘as addictive’ as tobacco
New research suggests that health care professionals are taking steps toward framing food addiction as a clinical entity in its own right.
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Fentanyl vaccine a potential ‘game changer’ for opioid crisis
In studies in male and female mice, the vaccine generated significant and long-lasting levels of anti-fentanyl antibodies that were highly...
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Nicotine blocks estrogen production in women’s brains
There is evidence to suggest that there is a complex interaction between sex and steroid hormones and the reward effect of nicotine, modulated by...
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What’s the best age to stop smoking? Study offers clue
“Without a proximal goal, it is tempting for smokers to abandon a quit attempt with cognitions such as ‘I don’t really need to do it just now...
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Four commonly abused drugs linked with atrial fibrillation
All four drugs – cocaine, methamphetamine, opioids, and cannabis – whether stimulants or depressants – cause “quite dramatic and often rapid...
Perspectives
The lives of drug users are more important than stopping drug use
For too long, doctors, nurses, caregivers, and the broader American public have favored abstinence only treatment.
Program Profile
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Program in a VA Emergency Department
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a public health crisis significantly affecting veterans. Providing medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) can...
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‘Disturbing’ lack of follow-up care after psychiatric crises
Patients who had received both primary care and mental health care before an acute event had the highest odds of receiving follow-up.
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The truth about the ‘happy hormone’: Why we shouldn’t mess with dopamine
Since its first synthesis in the early 20th century, dopamine has often been misunderstood and oversimplified – and it seems the story is...
Conference Coverage
Long-acting naltrexone effective in alcohol use disorder
“ED patients are at higher risk of complications for AUD simply because they are in the ED in the first place – initiating AUD treatment in this...