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Flavors attract both youth and adults to use e-cigarettes

As more and more youth use electronic cigarettes, combined with research showing the health consequences of vaping - including nicotine addiction - researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill found that non-menthol flavors attract youth and adults to use e-cigarettes and that the use of flavored e-cigarettes contributes to multiple pathways linked to higher e-cigarette use among youth.

24 Oct 2019

Enhanced informatics tool could help better identify nonfatal opioid overdose cases in the ED

A team of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina has been awarded $3.75 million by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to enhance an existing informatics tool known as "informatics for integrating biology and the bedside" or I2B2.

24 Oct 2019

Gene linked to schizophrenia likely confers risk for illness

Researchers have discovered in mice how one of the few genes definitively linked to schizophrenia, called SETD1A, likely confers risk for the illness. Mice genetically engineered to lack a functioning version of the enzyme-coding gene showed abnormalities in working memory, mimicking those commonly seen in schizophrenia patients.

24 Oct 2019

Washington State law on behavioral care balances parental rights, teens’ autonomy

When Ben Packard met with the 16-year-old girl a little over a year ago, she was a patient at Seattle Children's Hospital, where she'd been admitted after trying to kill herself. Her parents were distraught.

24 Oct 2019

Highest anxiety and sleeping pill prescription rates in deprived areas of England

The poorest and most socially deprived areas in England have the highest rates of prescription for benzodiazepines and Z-drugs, according to a new University of Warwick study published in the journal Family Practice on October 22, 2019.

23 Oct 2019

Researchers map global use of illicit drugs via wastewater samples

A seven-year project monitoring illicit drug use in 37 countries via wastewater samples shows that cocaine use was skyrocketing in Europe in 2017 and Australia had a serious problem with methamphetamine.

23 Oct 2019

Sanford Burnham Prebys scientist receives $3.58 million to advance treatment for opioid-use disorders

The National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded a $3.58 million grant to Sanford Burnham Prebys scientist Anthony Pinkerton, Ph.D., to advance a potential treatment for opioid-use disorders, called SBI-553.

23 Oct 2019

BBRF announces over $13.8 million in Young Investigator Grants to support mental health scientists

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation today announced the awarding of its Young Investigator Grants valued at more than $13.8 million to 200 of the world's most promising young scientists.

22 Oct 2019

Mothers and fathers influence their adult children's health in very different ways

Some adults see their mothers and fathers as still influencing their own health - but in very different ways, according to a new study.

21 Oct 2019

For generation Juul, nicotine addiction happens fast and is hard to shake

When Will tried his first vape during his sophomore year, he didn’t know what to expect. It was just something he had vaguely heard about at his high school.

21 Oct 2019

One in five patients prescribed opioids after cardiac device implantation surgery, study shows

One in five patients is prescribed opioids after having a pacemaker or similar device implanted, according to a large US study conducted at Mayo Clinic published in HeartRhythm, the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society and the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society published by Elsevier.

21 Oct 2019

Unnecessary opioid prescribing after cesarean delivery remains high

Nearly 90% of women who did not use opioids in the hospital after cesarean delivery were nonetheless discharged with a prescription for opioids, according to a study presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2019 annual meeting.

20 Oct 2019

Training social workers to address and respond to the opioid epidemic

Nancy Ochoa was 15 years old the first time she used heroin with a group of friends. At 16, four months after the birth of her first child, her occasional drug use had turned into a "necessity."

17 Oct 2019

Vaping helps 50,000 cigarette smokers quit in England each year

Thousands of cigarette smokers have been able to quit in the UK by switching to e-cigarettes, also known as vapes, claims a new study published in the journal Addiction.

17 Oct 2019

Researchers find behavioral, biological similarities between compulsive overeating and addiction

Does yo-yo dieting drive compulsive eating? There may be a connection. According to Boston University School of Medicine researchers the chronic cyclic pattern of overeating followed by undereating, reduces the brain's ability to feel reward and may drive compulsive eating.

17 Oct 2019

Substance use disorder can complicate postoperative valvular heart disease, shows study

Patients who suffer from infective endocarditis (IE) and struggle with substance use disorder (SUD) have a 240% increased risk of dying within 6 months to 5 years after valve surgery compared to other IE patients, according to a study published online today in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

17 Oct 2019

Addiction News and Research

Flavors attract both youth and adults to use e-cigarettes

Enhanced informatics tool could help better identify nonfatal opioid overdose cases in the ED

Gene linked to schizophrenia likely confers risk for illness

Washington State law on behavioral care balances parental rights, teens’ autonomy

Highest anxiety and sleeping pill prescription rates in deprived areas of England

Researchers map global use of illicit drugs via wastewater samples

Sanford Burnham Prebys scientist receives $3.58 million to advance treatment for opioid-use disorders

BBRF announces over $13.8 million in Young Investigator Grants to support mental health scientists

Mothers and fathers influence their adult children's health in very different ways

For generation Juul, nicotine addiction happens fast and is hard to shake

One in five patients prescribed opioids after cardiac device implantation surgery, study shows

Unnecessary opioid prescribing after cesarean delivery remains high

Training social workers to address and respond to the opioid epidemic

Vaping helps 50,000 cigarette smokers quit in England each year

Researchers find behavioral, biological similarities between compulsive overeating and addiction

Substance use disorder can complicate postoperative valvular heart disease, shows study

Temple researchers win NIH grant to study HIV-related neuroinflammation in context of opioid addiction

Researchers identify circuit that links cigarette smoking and risk of developing diabetes

Competitive people more likely to give in to drug consumption

Study reports first evidence of biological changes related to e-cig use in never-smokers

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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