Tag: Drug Abuse

Likelihood of using substances up when youth were stressed by pandemic-related uncertainty, family experienced material hardship

And risk for posttransplant death decreasing despite drug overdose, hepatitis C-positive donors contributing to donor risk

High-dose buprenorphine protocol well tolerated in patients with untreated opioid use disorder; no reports of respiratory depression or sedation

Increases seen in overdose deaths from opioids, as well as cocaine and psychostimulants

Those with past-year methamphetamine use also more likely to have each combination of paired outcomes or all three outcomes

Past-year substance use disorder higher for adolescents than young adults at all examined time frames since first use

Increases seen in urban and rural counties from 1999 to 2019; rates higher in rural versus urban counties for five states in 2019

Independent associations seen for use of tobacco, alcohol, cocaine, amphetamine, cannabis, other drugs, with stronger links for women

20.9 and 34.7 percent of youth aged 12 to 17 years, 18 to 25 years using psychoactive prescription medications report misuse

Response was low but higher with naltrexone-bupropion than placebo during 12-week, two-stage trial