Childhood sexual abuse and suicide attempts in patients with substance use disorders: the mediating role of emotion dysregulation - Di Nicola M, Pepe M, Montanari S, Marcelli I, Panaccione I, Janiri D, Janiri L, Sani G.
BACKGROUND: Suicide attempts (SA) are a public health concern because of increasing prevalence and clinical implications. Childhood trauma (CT) and emotion dysregulation (ED) have been proposed as predictors of SA, but few data are available in patients wi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
SAMHSA: Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is seeking comments on revisions to the Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) monitoring tools. Revisions include the inclusion of new cohorts, substantial revisions to the youth and adult questionnaires, updates to the data used to estimate response rates and expected numbers of participants by service duration. Comments are due by May 20, 2024. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - March 19, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network meeting report: managing patients exposed to xylazine-adulterated opioids in emergency, hospital and addiction care settings - Perrone J, Haroz R, D'Orazio J, Gianotti G, Love J, Salzman M, Lowenstein M, Thakrar A, Klipp S, Rae L, Reed MK, Sisco E, Wightman R, Nelson LS.
Used as a veterinary sedative and not approved for human use, xylazine has been increasingly linked with opioid overdose deaths in the United States. A growing number of people have been exposed to xylazine in the illicit opioid supply (especially fentanyl... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Infant exposure to drugs of abuse investigated by hair analysis - Clara C, Claudio T, Alessandro C, Alessia R, Anna A, Donata F.
Infant exposure to drugs of abuse represents a worldwide problem whose extent is difficult to estimate. Despite the potentially serious health consequences, few data concerning exposure in children under 1 year of age are available. Since in clinical and f... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Sudden death due to butane abuse - an overview - Piersanti V, Napoletano G, David MC, Umani Ronchi F, Marinelli E, De Paola L, Zaami S.
Volatile Solvents Abuse (VSA) poses major health risks, especially for young people and those living in precarious socio-economic conditions. Such substances can in fact bring about psychoactive effects such as euphoria, and even lead to sudden death from ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Gaudenzia, operator of substance abuse treatment centers, names new CEO
Gaudenzia is one of the country's largest operators of nonprofit substance use treatment centers. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: John George Source Type: news
Evaluation of the urine drug abuse screening tests - Akpinar K, Aksun S, Akpinar K.
BACKGROUND: Substance use is an important public health problem and increasing all over the world. Different methods have been defined for drug abuse testing in medical laboratories. We aimed to compare two urine drug screening methods with liquid chromato... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
New behavioral health hospital with 72 beds to open in McKinney
A large behavioral health hospital has debuted in McKinney, offering increased capacity to treat mental health concerns and substance abuse in Collin County and the rapidly growing North Texas region. Read on to see specifics about the new facility and what it adds to the broader DFW health care matrix. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Noor Adatia Source Type: news
Taking'Study Drugs' Like Adderall Could Be Gateway to More Drug Abuse
THURSDAY, March 14, 2024 -- College students who use drugs like Adderall to help them focus on their studies may be setting themselves up for trouble.
Researchers asked 700 undergraduates across the United States about drugs commonly used by... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 14, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Illicit drug abuse and complexity of tibial shaft fracture based on AO/OTA classification: is there any connection? - Sharafi A, Ghaderi A, Shahbazi P, Ghaseminejad-Raeini A, Ramezani A, Soleimani M, Talebiyan P, Shafiei SH.
PURPOSE: Illicit drug abuse is a global epidemic afflicting millions worldwide. Several studies have investigated the contribution of this dependence as a risk factor for fracture, but its impacts on fracture severity have been rarely studied. The present ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Shedding light on the hidden methamphetamine abuse: a nation-wide 7-year post-mortem study in Taiwan - Wei SY, Su CC, Hu HY, Lin SY, Pan CH.
BACKGROUND: The number of methamphetamine-related deaths has been increasing in recent decades. However, current data primarily rely on a few large-scale national surveys, highlighting the need for diverse data sources. Post-mortem studies offer advantages... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Overdose or Poisoning? A New Debate Over What to Call a Drug Death.
Grieving families want official records and popular discourse to move away from reflexive use of “overdose,” which they believe blames victims for their deaths. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jan Hoffman Tags: Drug Abuse and Traffic Deaths (Fatalities) Poisoning and Poisons Pain-Relieving Drugs Opioids and Opiates Fentanyl Heroin United States your-feed-healthcare your-feed-science English Language Source Type: news
‘I’m never going to be Tony’: Jeanne Marrazzo, Anthony Fauci’s successor, vows a new direction at NIAID
When Jeanne Marrazzo started her residency at the Yale New Haven Hospital in 1988, the world was a very different place. Marrazzo provided care for dying AIDS patients—mainly gay men and intravenous drug users and their sexual partners. “Stigma was alive and well and thriving, and in fact, really, really ugly at the time,” Marrazzo told an audience of young scientists on 3 March in Denver, just before the start of an HIV/AIDS conference. “You really sometimes had to work hard to get your patients what you needed. That made me interested in political and scientific advocacy and activism very early on.”
At th...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 8, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Primary school pupils' awareness of physical and sexual violence in Tanzania - Kimaro J, Biswalo U.
Children who have experienced physical and sexual violence are at risk for a variety of physical, mental, behavioural, and social issues that can lead to drug abuse and academic failure. However, how children perceive physical and sexual violence is unknow... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Powerful Psychedelic Drug Gains New Notice as an Opioid Addiction Therapy
New research is stirring interest in ibogaine, which appears to help ease the agony of detox and prevent relapse. Used in other countries, it remains illegal in the U.S. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew Jacobs Tags: Drug Abuse and Traffic Mental Health and Disorders Opioids and Opiates Brain Psychedelic and Hallucinogenic Drugs Research Pain-Relieving Drugs Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Trials Addiction (Psychology) Heart Depression (M Source Type: news
