Tag: Drug Abuse

Safe injection sites give users a monitored space for injected drug use

Populations at higher risk for methamphetamine use disorder diversifying rapidly

History of TBI tied to 52 percent increased odds of prescription opioid use, 65 percent increased odds of prescription opioid misuse

Odds increased for developing alcohol use disorders, cannabis use disorders, other drug use disorders

Likelihood of using substances up when youth were stressed by pandemic-related uncertainty, family experienced material hardship

And risk for posttransplant death decreasing despite drug overdose, hepatitis C-positive donors contributing to donor risk

High-dose buprenorphine protocol well tolerated in patients with untreated opioid use disorder; no reports of respiratory depression or sedation

Increases seen in overdose deaths from opioids, as well as cocaine and psychostimulants

Those with past-year methamphetamine use also more likely to have each combination of paired outcomes or all three outcomes

Past-year substance use disorder higher for adolescents than young adults at all examined time frames since first use