New Study Shows How Cancer Survivors Develop Opioid Addictions
Opioids play an important role in how cancer patients manage pain, but the ongoing opioid epidemic has raised concerns about their potential for abuse. Pain…
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Study Finds No Evidence to Suggest Cannabis Helps Patients Stop Using Opioids
Cannabis Found Not to Be a Substitute for Opioids There has been interest in cannabis being used as a replacement drug for people with opioid…
Opioid Prescription Doses Are Often Being Tapered More Rapidly Than Recommended
UC Davis physicians advise caution, collaboration with patients on tapering plans. Stigma and safety fears have made daily dose tapering of opioid prescriptions more common….
Teen Vaping Actually Doesn’t Lead to Smoking According to New Study
A new study published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research on November 4, 2019, published by Oxford University Press, suggests that adolescent e-cigarette users are more…
Study Examines Opioid & Cocaine Use by Profession – Most Likely to Use “Makes Sense”
Study points to need for programs to prevent drug-related harm among workers in risky industry. Construction workers are more likely to use drugs than workers…
Wastewater Analyzed to Map International Drug Use – Here Are the Shocking Results
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…
Financial Incentives Influence Doctors Alcohol Advice to Patients
General practitioners stopped giving alcohol advice to patients when they stopped being paid to do so. When the Department of Health (England) introduced financial incentives…
A Lethal Dose for $1 – Fentanyl’s Risk on the ‘Darknet’
U.S. overdose deaths attributed to synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, have increased from under 3,000 in 2013 to nearly 20,000 in 2016, making up half…
Stemming the Opioid Crisis: New Addiction Treatments Hold Promise
Concerns over the opioid epidemic have sparked a strong scientific interest in why some people become addicted while others don’t. Now, researchers are proposing novel…
The Science of Breaking Bad: Was Meth Cooked Inside Your House? [Video]
The highly anticipated Breaking Bad movie El Camino storyline focusing on drug production is more relevant than ever — with contamination of houses from methamphetamine…
Young, White, Daily Opioid Users More Likely to Prefer Fentanyl
Study of people who use drugs in three cities will be used to target harm-reduction measures. A minority of people who use illicit opioids indicated…
Secret to Opiate Relapse Discovered: Synaptic Rewiring
How relapse happens: Opiates reduce the brain’s ability to form, maintain synapses. Preclinical research was focused on revealing the molecular mechanisms behind addiction and relapse….
Medications Can Help As Opioid Treatment for Teens
Teens who misuse prescription or illicit opioids might benefit from opioid treatment medications, according to a new study led by a Yale researcher. An estimated…
Teens Abusing Opioids May Benefit From Medication Treatment
Although the effectiveness of medications to treat adults with opioid use disorder has been well established, there has been little research about how — or…