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How does cocaine affect the heart?
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Cocaine’s effects on the heart can cause both immediate emergencies, such as a heart attack, and long-term damage. Cocaine’s effects on the heart can cause both immediate emergencies, such as a heart attack, and long-term...
Quantifying the social costs of pharmaceutical opioid misuse and illicit opioid use to Australia in 2015/16
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In recent decades the range and patterns of opioids used for extra-medical purposes have changed. The use of pharmaceutical opioids exceeds the use of heroin. In 2017, 63 percent of opioid deaths were attributed exclusively...
Hospitalizations and Deaths Associated with EVALI (Vaping/E-Cigarettes)
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As of January 7, 2020, a total of 2558 hospitalized patients with nonfatal cases and 60 patients with fatal cases of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use–associated lung injury (EVALI) had been reported to the Centers...
Regulating Vaping — Policies, Possibilities, and Perils (NEJM)
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Soaring rates of vaping among young people and associated problems have resulted in great urgency and important challenges for policymakers. Despite the urgency, policies should be evidence-based and thoughtfully designed. They require effective, collaborative, and...
Adolescent Brain Development: WEBINAR
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Adolescent Brain Development: WEBINAR – Ken C. Winters (Ph.D. is a Senior Scientist at the Oregon Research Institute )
Examining Brain Health Could Help Fight Methamphetamine Use Disorder
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In prior work, it’s been noted how psychosis can follow methamphetamine use and last into abstinence. Varying levels of methamphetamine use can induce psychosis, depending in part on an individual’s background, and it can develop...
Esketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression — First FDA-Approved Antidepressant in a New Class
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Treating major depressive disorder remains an important challenge worldwide. The disorder impairs productivity, social functioning, and overall health, reducing life expectancy and burdening health care systems.1 Although many treatments exist, at least a third of patients...
‘Alarming’ amount of new drugs on dark web: ANU study
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Australians have access to mass amounts of potent drugs online, equivalent to “billions of doses” every day, according to a new study from The Australian National University (ANU). The report found “alarming” amounts of synthetic...
SAMHSA’s 15th Annual Prevention Day Afternoon Plenary Recording
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(February 4, 2019)
- The importance and efficacy of Prevention & Demand Reduction mechanisms
- Focusing on the real dangers of Marijuana, Kratom and E-Cigarettes (Vaping)
Amphetamine Use Accelerated Cardiovascular-biological age
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Conclusions: These results show that subacute exposure to amphetamines is associated with an advancement of cardiovascular-organismal age both over age and over time, and is robust to adjustment. That this is associated with power functions...
Conditional probabilities of substance use disorders and associated risk factors
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Progression from first use to use disorder on alcohol, cannabis, stimulants, sedatives and opioids Highlights Pre-existing mental disorders increases the risk of developing SUD. Prior SUD increases the risk of transitioning from use to use...
Big Tobacco Wants to Get YOU Hooked on…The health risks of vaping
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There’s a figure that is often quoted by vaping enthusiasts: e-cigarettes are 5 per cent as harmful as traditional combustible cigarettes. That figure comes from Public Health England. But according to Dr Sarah White, director...
Measuring Aerosol Particle Emissions from Cannabis Vaporization and Dabbing
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SUMMARY Cannabis smoke contains many of the same carcinogens and chemicals found in tobacco smoke (Moir, Rickert et al. 2008, Wei, Alwis et al. 2016). Exposure to secondhand cannabis smoke can impair endothelial function, which...
The US Opioid Crisis is more than it appears!
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The Institute for Behavior and Health is pleased to share with you an interview of IBH President Robert L. DuPont, MD featured in Opioid Watch of The Opioid Research Institute: The Opioid Crisis is Now About Synthetics...
Hepatitis C in Injection-Drug Users — A Hidden Danger of the Opioid Epidemic
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Transmission of other bloodborne infections, particularly HIV and hepatitis B virus (HBV), is also increasing among injection-drug users, albeit at a slower rate. The opioid epidemic has also been linked to increasing rates of syphilis...
Cocaine and Marijuana Use Among Young Adults Presenting With Myocardial Infarction
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JACC: Journal of the American College of Cardiology – Key Summary Patients aged ≤50 years presenting with their first myocardial infarction were retrospectively analyzed to evaluate the prevalence of cocaine and marijuana use and the...
Learn About E-Cigarettes!
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PREVENTION ALLIANCE Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, were invented in 2003 by Chinese inventor and pharmacist Hon Lik. Although many companies and advocates continue to bill them as a safer, smokeless alternative to traditional cigarettes, a...
The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
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March 6, 2018 – Abstract Naloxone access may unintentionally increase opioid abuse through two channels: (1) saving the lives of active drug users, who survive to continue abusing opioids, and (2) reducing the risk of...
Chem-sex Issues: Illicit drug use among New Zealand gay and bisexual men: Prevalence and association with sexual health behaviours
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Abstract INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Data are lacking on drug use among gay and bisexual men (GBM) in New Zealand. We establish a baseline estimate of drug use and investigate associations with sexual health and HIV...
The Key Role of Prevention In Addressing the Current Landscape of Substance Abuse in America: A Perspective
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Presented 2018 Annual PREVENTION DAY February 2018
Elinore F. McCance-Katz, MD, PhD – Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
