We curate a digest of the latest news in our field for advocates, policymakers, community coalitions and all who work toward shaping policies and practices to effectively prevent substance use and treat addiction.
Find more of our must-reads in policy news, including a report finding the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not ensure that selected states complied with Medicaid parity requirements.
View our curated digest of the latest research news, including a review of a youth-led integrated strategy to prevent substance use and risky sexual behavior among school-attending youth at disproportionate risk.
The rate of overdose deaths in the United States in 2022 were at a record high, but there are signs the overdose rate may be leveling off after years of a steady rise, according to new government data.
European experts in substance use disorder say making methadone easy to obtain is key to the continent’s success in treatment, STAT reports. The opioid death rate in Europe is about one-twentieth the rate in the United States.
A new study finds that less than 9% of Americans living in rural areas with both opioid and alcohol use disorders are prescribed medication to treat both conditions.
View our curated digest of the latest research news, including a systematic review of the prevalence of cannabis use disorders in people who use medicinal cannabis.
Private equity firms have acquired stakes in almost one-third of all methadone clinics in the United States in recent years, according to an investigation by STAT. This gives the firms outsize control of the substance use disorder treatment industry.
A new study finds high school students who use both tobacco and marijuana products miss more school and have lower grades than their peers who use one of these substances alone or neither.
Vice President Kamala Harris called on the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to quickly reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III substance, Reuters reports.
Find more of our must-reads in policy news, including opioid treatment programs becoming increasingly backed by private equity firms that oppose the expansion of methadone access.
View our curated digest of the latest research news, including the neutral correlates of the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment incentive salience factor among individuals with alcohol use disorder.
The opioid overdose antidote naloxone, cleared by the Food and Drug Administration last year for over-the-counter sales, is not always easy to find in pharmacies.
Five Senate committee chairs have sent letters to the chief executives of major convenience stores and their wholesalers, calling on them to remove unauthorized vaping products.
View our curated digest of the latest research news, including the impact of exposure to e-cigarette advertisements and reviews on the progression of use among young adults in the US.
Almost every sector of American society is obstructing use of methadone and buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder, according to a yearlong investigation by STAT.
An average of 488 people died per day in the U.S. from excessive alcohol consumption in 2020-21, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Find more of our must-reads in policy news, including a yearlong investigation concluding that virtually every sector of society is obstructing use of medications for addiction treatment.
View our curated digest of the latest research news, including an evaluation of system and organizational barriers to substance use treatment in the time of an opioid overdose epidemic.
Poison centers in the U.S. reported a large jump in the number of calls related to psilocybin, or “magic mushrooms,” among teens and young adults after several cities and states began decriminalizing the hallucinogen, a new study finds.
Some veterans' groups are urging the Justice Department to ease federal restrictions on marijuana, six months after the Department of Health and Human Services recommended doing so, NBC News reports.
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