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Drug addiction among youngsters is tearing families apart and stealing futures before they even start. In the U.S., over 5 million youth under 18 have misused prescription drugs in the past year, per a 2024 CDC report. Opioids, synthetic cannabinoids like spice, and even vaping nicotine top the list, hitting teens hardest as they navigate [...]
Many surgeons recommend giving up smoking, alcohol, or drugs before surgery, but researchers have found this may also increase the need for pain medication.
Over-the-counter medication can be highly addictive, that is the message from the Department of Health.
Alcohol mortality rates have nearly doubled in the last 25 years. Who is most at risk?
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There is active scientific debate about the nature of addiction as a mental disorder, but with comparatively little discussion of nosology itself. To contribute to the ongoing dialogue, this review provides a concise history of the formal medical diagnoses used to define addiction clinically and vanguard contemporary perspectives. The history of addiction as a medical diagnosis starts at the beginning of the 20th century in the first International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and was present in 1953 in the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Across iterations of both systems, the evolving nosology can be broadly divided into three epochs, an early primeval period (1900–1948), reflecting coarse definitions subsumed within personality disorder; a phenomenological period (1948–1980), reflecting descriptive definitions; and an empirically-informed period (1980 to the present), comprising operational definitions of polythetic syndromes, increasingly informed by empirical findings. Contemporary priorities suggest an emerging fourth epoch, prioritizing a diagnostic nomological network of objective etiologically-informed tests via, for example, the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) and Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment (ANA) frameworks. Both RDoC and ANA focus on using objective mechanistic indicators to decrease subjectivity in diagnosis and increase alignment between etiology and diagnosis. Next-generation diagnostic approaches are anticipated to enhance incisiveness in psychiatric diagnosis and in turn improve clinical outcomes. Tracing the vicissitudes of addiction nosology over the past century reveals an evolution that is both more humane and scientific, from moral weakness and personality defect toward diagnostic definitions and practices that are grounded in empirical evidence.
Researchers used new statistical methods to analyze public data on the global health burden due to drug addiction. They showed that drug-related mortality has i
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The Camden County Board of Commissioners and the Addiction Awareness Task Force (AATF) launched the Break the Stigma campaign to change the conversation around addiction and recovery.
WHEELING — Families and friends remember them from childhood. They loved football — the Steelers, Browns or Cowboys. They had people who loved them. Maybe they had a dream to be in law enforcement or to operate their own tattoo shop. Then their lives were cut short by drug addiction. YWCA Wheeling, Youth Services System […]
Is it really possible to rewire your brain from addiction? The answer is yes — here’s how your brain heals, and how to support recovery.
An NIH study found that adults with substance use disorder who quit smoking are more likely to achieve recovery.
Finding it hard to concentrate? Are you glued to social media for longer than you’d like? Well, maybe it’s not you… maybe it’s the phones.
Brittany is joined by Magdalene Taylor, writer, cultural critic and senior editor at Playboy, and Fio Geiran, producer at TED Radio Hour and a writer of their Body Electric newsletter, to discuss this phrase: “it’s the phones.” They get into the effects that smartphones have on our brains and our culture, why some people are returning to “dumbphones,” and why it might take more than willpower to manage our relationships with our phones.Click here to check out the Body Electric newsletter.
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Key Takeaways Research demonstrates that Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOPs) achieve comparable success rates of 50-70% to inpatient treatment for most individuals with substance use disorders, with outcomes varying based on program quality and individual commitment IOPs offer significant cost advantages with complete programs averaging $3,000-$10,000 compared to higher inpatient costs while allowing patients to maintain […]
Most people think addiction means a person has severe withdrawal when not taking alcohol or drugs. But withdrawal symptoms occur with ADs and many non-addicting medications.
The withdrawal symptoms of benzodiazepines are physically and emotionally painful and can be life-threatening if the user stops “cold turkey.”
A study by the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute found that fentanyl and synthetic opioids continue to be a leading cause of overdose deaths in the U.S., despite drug-related mortality decreasing in 2023 and provisional data suggesting a further decrease in 2024.
Charlie Health reports summer increases substance misuse, with higher risks of trying drugs and alcohol, heat-related hospital visits, and varied patterns among groups.
Across Alameda County and the U.S., more teens are quietly turning to opioids, often as a way to cope with overwhelming stress, trauma, and pressures that constantly surround them. In fact, The New England Journal of Medicine states that opioid overdose deaths among teens has more than doubled in recent years and continues to increase […]
Studies have shown a link between stressful life events and substance use and misuse in the military. Substance use disorders include both illicit drugs (termed “use”) and prescription medication (termed “misuse”). Service members frequently experience stress due to situations like training, combat, or multiple deployments.
For more resources from the Real Warriors Campaign, visit health.mil/RealWarriors
Inova Health Systems released new data showing that about one in two adults in Northern Virginia is personally impacted by substance use or knows someone who is affected by addiction
How are doctors trained on addiction in medical school? An medical school educator breaks down how the field has changed to put the focus back on patients.
Despite a recent decline in drug overdose deaths in the U.S., fatalities involving multiple substances—known as polysubstance overdoses—have been on the rise.
There is a lot of talk about substance abuse. The deaths. The crisis. But what comes before all that? What actually drives someone to become addicted to substances in the first place? We throw around the word “addiction” like it’s this dark place people suddenly fall into. But the truth is, addiction doesn’t show up […]
Many clinicians think of addiction as a trauma response. But research supports only a probabilistic connection between the two. Assuming something more than this is misguided.
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