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New AI algorithm helps predict medication response in patients with complex mood disorder

Mood disorders like major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder are often complex and hard to diagnose, especially among youth when the illness is just evolving.

9 Aug 2018

Study: Exercise can help prevent relapses into cocaine addiction

Exercise can help prevent relapses into cocaine addiction, according to new research led by the University at Buffalo's Panayotis (Peter) Thanos, PhD.

9 Aug 2018

As opioid crisis rages, some trade ‘tough love’ for empathy

It was Bea Duncan who answered the phone at 2 a.m. on a January morning. Her son Jeff had been caught using drugs in a New Hampshire sober home and was being kicked out.

8 Aug 2018

FDA issues scientific recommendations to encourage development of novel drugs for treatment of OUD

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued new scientific recommendations aimed at encouraging more widespread innovation and development of novel medication-assisted treatment drugs for the treatment of opioid use disorder.

7 Aug 2018

How rival opioid makers sought to cash in on alarm over oxycontin’s dangers

As Purdue Pharma faced mounting criticism over deaths linked to OxyContin, rival drugmakers saw a chance to boost sales by stepping up marketing of similarly dangerous painkillers, such as fentanyl, morphine and methadone, Purdue internal documents reveal.

2 Aug 2018

Patients with chronic pain feel caught in an opioid-prescribing debate

It started with a rolled ankle during a routine Army training exercise. Shannon Hubbard never imagined it was the prologue to one of the most debilitating pain conditions known to exist, called complex regional pain syndrome.

1 Aug 2018

FSMB partners with NAM to form Action Collaborative on countering opioid epidemic

In recognition of the need for a national coordinated and collective response to the epidemic of opioid addiction in the U.S., the Federation of State Medical Boards is partnering with the National Academy of Medicine and 35 organizations to form the Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic.

1 Aug 2018

Drinking or smoking while breastfeeding and affects later cognition in children

According to a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics, quite a few breast feeding women are not abstaining from alcohol and are thus causing exposure of their babies to alcohol. They write in their study that children who are exposed to alcohol in the breast milk that they take are likely to have lower cognitive abilities.

31 Jul 2018

Alcala Labs to use Neoteryx’s VAMS technology for monitoring patients in recovery centers

Today, Neoteryx LLC, announced that it will supply its Volumetric Absorptive Microsampling technology, in the form of the Mitra microsampling device, to Alcala Labs of San Diego for a more efficacious, streamlined approach to monitor patients in recovery centers throughout the United States.

28 Jul 2018

Former inmates more likely to die of opioid overdose after prison release

A recent study in North Carolina found that in the first two weeks after being released from prison, former inmates were 40 times more likely to die of an opioid overdose than someone in the general population.

23 Jul 2018

Studies highlight issues regarding black lung, opioid overdose, police violence and more

This study found the national prevalence of coal worker's pneumoconiosis (black lung) is increasing among working coal miners. In central Appalachia, 20.6 percent of miners working more than 25 years have black lung disease.

20 Jul 2018

Hunger hormones could be key to new treatments for drug, alcohol addiction

Hormones that signal the body's state of hunger and fullness could be the key to new treatments for drug and alcohol addiction.

17 Jul 2018

LGBQ teens at higher risk of substance use than heterosexual peers, study shows

Lesbian, gay, bisexual or questioning teens are at substantially higher risk of substance use than their heterosexual peers, according to a new study led by San Diego State University researchers and published in the American Journal of Public Health.

13 Jul 2018

Substance Abuse News and Research

New AI algorithm helps predict medication response in patients with complex mood disorder

Study: Exercise can help prevent relapses into cocaine addiction

As opioid crisis rages, some trade ‘tough love’ for empathy

FDA issues scientific recommendations to encourage development of novel drugs for treatment of OUD

How rival opioid makers sought to cash in on alarm over oxycontin’s dangers

Patients with chronic pain feel caught in an opioid-prescribing debate

FSMB partners with NAM to form Action Collaborative on countering opioid epidemic

Drinking or smoking while breastfeeding and affects later cognition in children

Alcala Labs to use Neoteryx’s VAMS technology for monitoring patients in recovery centers

Former inmates more likely to die of opioid overdose after prison release

Studies highlight issues regarding black lung, opioid overdose, police violence and more

Hunger hormones could be key to new treatments for drug, alcohol addiction

LGBQ teens at higher risk of substance use than heterosexual peers, study shows

Opioid patients face several barriers to treatment, study finds

Researchers assess role of physician in preventing intimate partner violence perpetration

MSU and partners receive grant to address the need for nurses in medically underserved areas

Severe childhood trauma, stresses in parents' lives linked to behavioral health problems in children

What a U.S.-China trade war could mean for the opioid epidemic

The other victims: First responders to horrific disasters often suffer in solitude

Texas clinics busting traditional silos of mental and physical health care

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

How ELRIG Is Helping Mid-Career Scientists Navigate Leadership, Career Change and Redundancy

The role of UV-Vis in biopharma QC

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