This Week in Addiction Medicine from ASAM
Episodes
Lead: Biomarkers of metal exposure in adolescent e-cigarette users
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story Biomarkers of metal exposure in adolescent e-cigarette users: correlations with vaping frequency and flavouring Tobacco Control Various m...
Lead: Association of regular opioid use with incident dementia and neuroimaging markers of brain health in chronic pain patients
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Association of regular opioid use with incident dementia and neuroimaging markers of brain health in chronic pain patients: analysis of UK Biobank The...
Lead: Preventing deaths after prison release
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Preventing deaths after prison release The Lancet Formerly incarcerated people have exceptionally poor health profiles and are at increased risk of pr...
Lead: Telling the story of the opioid crisis
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Telling the story of the opioid crisis: A narrative analysis of the TV series Dopesick PLOS One Dopesick (2021) is the first TV series...
Lead: Impact of jail-based methadone or buprenorphine treatment on non-fatal opioid overdose after incarceration
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Impact of jail-based methadone or buprenorphine treatment on non-fatal opioid overdose after incarceration Drug and Alcohol Dependence The...
Lead: Epigenome-wide association study on methamphetamine dependence
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Epigenome-wide association study on methamphetamine dependence Addiction Biology The authors of this study postulate that some of the biol...
Lead: Disposable E-Cigarette Use and Subsequent Use Patterns in Adolescents and Young Adults
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Disposable E-Cigarette Use and Subsequent Use Patterns in Adolescents and Young Adults Pediatrics Utilizing sequential surveys in adolescents and yo...
Lead: Adolescent Δ8-THC and Marijuana Use in the US
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Adolescent Δ8-THC and Marijuana Use in the US 🔓 JAMA D8-THC is synthesized from legal hemp plants (with low D9-THC) and has intoxic...
Lead: Association of Cannabis Use With Cardiovascular Outcomes Among US Adults
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Association of Cannabis Use With Cardiovascular Outcomes Among US Adults Journal of the American Heart Association Cannabis use has incr...
Lead: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Geographic Availability of Buprenorphine
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Geographic Availability of Buprenorphine Journal of Addiction Medicine To identify whether buprenorphine ...
Lead: Smoking changes adaptive immunity with persistent effects
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story Smoking changes adaptive immunity with persistent effects Nature There is significant variability in immune response across the population,...
Lead: Overdose mortality incidence and supervised consumption services
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Overdose mortality incidence and supervised consumption services in Toronto, Canada: an ecological study and spatial analysis The Lancet...
Lead: Safety of e-cigarettes and nicotine patches as stop-smoking aids in pregnancy
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Safety of e-cigarettes and nicotine patches as stop-smoking aids in pregnancy: Secondary analysis of the Pregnancy Trial of E-cigarettes a...
Lead: Polysubstance mortality trends in White and Black Americans during the opioid epidemic
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Polysubstance mortality trends in White and Black Americans during the opioid epidemic, 1999–2018 BMC Public Health The CDC characterizes the opio...
Lead: First Trimester Use of Buprenorphine or Methadone
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: First Trimester Use of Buprenorphine or Methadone and the Risk of Congenital Malformations 🔓 JAMA Internal Medicine In this cohort stu...
Lead: Trends in hallucinogen-associated emergency department visits
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trends in hallucinogen-associated emergency department visits and hospitalizations in California, USA, from 2016 to 2022 🔓 Addiction There has bee...
Lead: Adolescent Residential Addiction Treatment In The US
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Adolescent Residential Addiction Treatment In The US: Uneven Access, Waitlists, And High Costs Health Affairs Residential treatment facili...
Lead: Benzodiazepine Discontinuation and Mortality
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Benzodiazepine Discontinuation and Mortality Among Patients Receiving Long-Term Benzodiazepine Therapy JAMA Network Open In this compara...
ASAM Weekly Top 10 Peer reviewed Scientific Publications of 2023
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Top Publication of 2023: ASAM Clinical Considerations: Buprenorphine Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder for Individuals Using High-potency Synthet...
Lead: Examining the benefit of a higher maintenance dose of extended-release buprenorphine
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Examining the benefit of a higher maintenance dose of extended-release buprenorphine in opioid-injecting participants treated for opioid u...
Lead: Relationship between alcohol use and firearm-involved suicide
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Relationship between alcohol use and firearm-involved suicide: Findings from the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2003-2020 Amer...
Lead: Pregnancy and Postpartum Drug Overdose Deaths in the US Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Pregnancy and Postpartum Drug Overdose Deaths in the US Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic JAMA Psychiatry This cross-sectional ex...
Lead: 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) SAMHSA Key findings include that in 2022, 70.3 million people aged 12 or older (or...
Lead: Fast dopamine increases drug reward
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Neural circuit selective for fast but not slow dopamine increases in drug reward🔓 Nature Communications The authors note that rapid del...
Lead: Public health approaches to gambling
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Public health approaches to gambling: a global review of legislative trends The Lancet Public Health Authors of this article systematica...
Lead: Clinical Practice Guideline on the Management of Stimulant Use Disorder
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Clinical Practice Guideline on the Management of Stimulant Use Disorder American Society of Addiction Medicine and American Academy of A...
Lead: Chronic pain, cannabis legalisation, and cannabis use disorder
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Chronic pain, cannabis legalisation, and cannabis use disorder among patients in the US Veterans Health Administration system, 2005 to 201...
Lead: Xylazine Adulteration of the Heroin–Fentanyl Drug Supply
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Xylazine Adulteration of the Heroin–Fentanyl Drug Supply Annals of Internal Medicine Since 2016, xylazine has appeared in the illicit...
Lead: Heterogeneous neuroimaging findings across substance use disorders localize to a common brain network
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Heterogeneous neuroimaging findings across substance use disorders localize to a common brain network Nature Mental Health This study...
Lead: The association between temperature and alcohol- and substance-related disorder hospital visits
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: The association between temperature and alcohol- and substance-related disorder hospital visits in New York State Communications Medicin...
Lead: US tobacco companies selectively disseminated hyper-palatable foods into the US food system
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: US tobacco companies selectively disseminated hyper-palatable foods into the US food system: Empirical evidence and current implication...
Lead: America’s Opioid Ecosystem: How Leveraging System Interactions Can Help Curb Addiction, Overdose, and Other Harms
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: America's Opioid Ecosystem: How Leveraging System Interactions Can Help Curb Addiction, Overdose, and Other Harms RAND Corporation This ...
Lead: Naloxone Use in Novel Potent Opioid and Fentanyl Overdoses in Emergency Department Patients
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Naloxone Use in Novel Potent Opioid and Fentanyl Overdoses in Emergency Department Patients JAMA Network Open In this cohort study of 53...
Lead: Examining sociodemographic correlates of opioid use, misuse, and use disorders in the All of Us Research Program
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Examining sociodemographic correlates of opioid use, misuse, and use disorders in the All of Us Research Program 🔓 ...
Lead: Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder and Reasons for Use Among Adults in a US
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lead Story: Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder and Reasons for Use Among Adults in a US State Where Recreational Cannabis Use Is Legal JAMA Network O...