Addiction Medicine
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Stratify Patients for Opioid Misuse and Abuse Risk
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Designer Drug ODs Call for Supportive Care and Education
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Spine Pain + Fibromyalgia Flag Resistance to Standard Therapy
Major Finding: Patients with axial spine pain at a tertiary pain center who met criteria for fibromyalgia tended to rate opioids as less effective...
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Prescribing Opioids for Pain Requires Careful Approach
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Most Smokers Want to Quit; Few Get Help
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Report: Thousands Intentionally Poisoned
Major Finding: Of the 4.6 million drug-related visits to the emergency department reported in 2009, 73% were made by patients aged 21 years and...
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Form of CBT Helps Patients Stop Smoking
Major Finding: In all, 75% of participants completed a 12-week substance expectation therapy smoking cessation program; 45% completed 12 weeks of...
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Native American Teens at High Risk for Substance Abuse
Major Finding: More than one-third of teenagers reported using drugs and/or alcohol in the past year, with adolescents of Native American, white,...
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Prescription Pain Pill Overdoses Quadrupled In Last Decade
Major Finding: A total of 36,450 deaths were attributed to drug overdose in 2008, for a rate of 11.9/100,000 population.
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Quetiapine Abuse Common in Prison Populations
Major Finding: An estimated 30% of inmates in the Los Angeles County Jail malingered to obtain quetiapine; many of the malingerers were substance...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Strategies to reduce alcohol use in problem drinkers
A targeted approach can help reduce alcohol-related harm in at-risk patients