Using Digital Therapeutics to Treat Substance Use Disorders
The convenience and confidentiality of computer-based and mobile technologies may encourage more individuals with substance use disorders to access treatment.
Addiction
Combining COPD Screening and Community Drug Services Benefits Heroin Smokers
A total of 35% of heroin smokers screened positive for COPD.
Terms Used for Addiction May Be Associated With Explicit, Implicit Bias
Stigmatizing terms used to describe individuals who have a substance addiction, including “addict,” alcoholic,” and “substance abuser,” may be associated with negative explicit and implicit biases and should be replaced with positive terms that still describe the conditions accurately.
Increasing Number of Benzodiazepine Prescriptions a Growing Threat in US
Much like opioids, benzodiazepines can be highly addictive over a short period of time and can result in the use of analogue drugs.
How to Identify Smartphone and Internet Addiction
Smartphone addiction is increasingly recognized as a type of behavioral addiction, and recent research has identified criteria that help establish a diagnosis.
Are Prescribing Habits to Blame? A Closer Look at the Opioid Epidemic
It really shouldn’t take a jarring New Yorker piece to make the opioid epidemic, or my role in it, real.
Specific Gene May Explain Need for Higher Doses of Methadone
This specific gene affects patients with African ancestry.
Opioid Use During Treatment in Traumatic Injuries Not Tied to Long-Term Use
This study has found that only 1% of post-traumatic injury patients still took opioids 1 year after their hospital discharge.
Internet Addiction in College Students May be Linked with Mental Health Problems
Researchers suggest that overuse of the internet may possibly be linked to depression, anxiety and impulsivity in college students.
Public Health England Says Vaping is 95% Less Harmful Than Smoking. Is it True?
Electronic cigarettes have become a common product in modern-day culture, so much that its almost more common to see people puffing on them than on conventional cigarettes. But is that really a good thing?
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