Substance Use Disorders News

In a cohort of older adults who smoked cannabis, impaired driving and elevated blood THC levels were significant 30 minutes after ingestion, according to research from JAMA Network Open.

Reduced drug use was linked to lower levels of craving, depression and other drug-related problems among individuals with stimulant use disorder, even if they did not achieve abstinence, according to a study published in Addiction.

Overdose deaths among high school-aged adolescents in the United States more than doubled between 2019 and 2020, researchers reported this week in The New England Journal of Medicine found.

Residential addiction treatment centers serving adolescents are scarce and expensive in the United States, new study findings suggest, despite increasing overdose rates among young people in recent years.

An analysis of syringe residue from discarded drug use equipment used by people who inject showed both chemical and biological contaminants in the syringes.

Some of the most-viewed stories on Healio Psychiatry over the past year highlighted the FDA designating an at-home depression treatment as a breakthrough device as well as the transformative power of psychedelics.

Below is a list of stories involving substance use and children that were published by Healio in 2023.

The FDA has approved AvertD, the first DNA test to identify an elevated risk for developing opioid use disorder, according to a press release.

Delix Therapeutics announced it has received a $320,000 grant from NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse to advance its novel, non-hallucinogenic neuroplastogen for treatment of substance use disorders, including opioid and stimulant use.

More than 60% of 12th graders who responded to a yearly survey of junior high and high school students reported not using alcohol, cannabis or nicotine in the past 30 days — the highest level of abstention in the survey’s history.