Substance Use Disorders

The prevalence of substance use among high school students was lower in 2021 compared with that in 2009 and 2019, although lifetime inhalant use was up from 2019, findings in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Supplement showed.

From 2002 to 2021, the rate of drug overdose death among people aged 65 years or older quadrupled, according to data published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Elevated cardiovascular measures before alcohol use disorder treatment predicted prazosin would reduce alcohol cravings, according to the findings of a placebo-controlled trial published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Researchers identified ketamine as a possible treatment for cocaine use disorder using artificial intelligence and professional expertise, according to findings published in the journal Addiction.

People with cocaine use disorder exhibited differences in DNA methylation in Brodmann Area 9 of the prefrontal cortex, according to a study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry.

Among patients with COVID-19 who visited EDs, those with both psychiatric and substance use disorders had greater odds of hospitalization compared with those with one or neither type of disorder, according to a study in JAMA Psychiatry.

A digital therapeutic software company has expanded its collaboration with an outpatient addiction treatment provider to provide adults with substance use disorder and opioid use disorder access to prescription digital therapeutics.

Buprenorphine dispensing among youths decreased significantly from 2015 to 2020 despite a rise in opioid-related overdoses, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Adverse childhood experiences, such as having a depressive episode or suffering physical abuse, were likely to contribute to risky drinking among children of alcoholics, researchers wrote in BMC Psychiatry.

Since the first death in the United States on Feb. 29, 2020, a total of 1,076,549 Americans have died as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.