Psychiatry

Rural U.S. residents who use both drugs more likely to have nonfatal overdose than those who use either drug alone

Positive screens for depression or anxiety more likely for racial/ethnic minorities well into the pandemic

Under the law, Medicare will now be allowed to negotiate the cost of some drugs; vaccines will be free for Part D recipients

Clinicians can use early risk factors to identify patients who are more likely to have the worst physical and mental HRQoL trajectories

Eutylone-involved deaths frequently co-involved illicitly manufactured fentanyls, and cocaine or methamphetamine

Increased peripheral levels of inflammatory biomarkers and oxidative stress biomarkers seen in people with severe mental illness or T2DM

Hypothesis that depression is caused by low serotonin not supported; some evidence shows decrease in serotonin with antidepressant use

However, 86.6 percent of people with opioid use disorder are not receiving medication treatment

Rural patients more likely to be diagnosed and treated by primary care providers

Users endorse medical cannabis for sleep disturbance and mood/anxiety symptoms