Latest Addiction Medicine News
With the magnitude of the opioid crisis, there has been a growing call for treatment of patients with opioid use disorder to be expanded beyond specialist care and into the hands of primary care physicians.
- December 07, 2021Source: Politico
In the coming weeks, a lingering Trump administration case against a proposed Philadelphia injection site called Safehouse could force the Biden administration to decide whether it is willing to quietly condone the practice.
- November 18, 2021Source: Quartz
Between April 2020 and April 2021, 100,000 Americans lost their lives to drug overdoses. This is the highest number of overdoses ever recorded in a year, and an increase of 29% over the previous 12 months. Opioids, and particularly synthetic ones such as fentanyl, are responsible for a majority of the deaths, killing 74,000. But overdoses from drugs such as cocaine or psychostimulants—including methamphetamines used to treat attention deficit disorder—that are less often associated with overdoses are increasing too.
- October 20, 2021
Dr. Deepa Camenga as lead author, in collaboration with several Yale DrivSim faculty, published a study focused on examining associations between simulated and self-reported driving among teens with and without prenatal cocaine exposure.
- October 13, 2021
A team of researchers bridging the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine, the Yale Department of Psychiatry and the Yale School of Public Health were recently awarded an $11.8 million grant through the NIH Helping End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative. The grant will support the establishment of a research center to advance integrated treatments for chronic pain and opioid use disorder or opioid misuse.
- October 12, 2021
Supported by a $3.5M grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), faculty in the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine and the Yale Department of Psychiatry have partnered to implement a three-arm trial that will investigate the optimal approach to enhance post-discharge AUD treatment engagement and reduction of alcohol use.
- September 30, 2021
Faculty from Yale Global Addictions Network Receive Grant to Create Joint Training Program with The University of Jordan
- September 23, 2021Source: Yale Daily News
Yale experts commented on the opioid crisis and pharmaceutical settlements in interviews with News.
- August 11, 2021Source: The Washington Post
As drug-related deaths have spiked across the United States in recent years, doctors seeking to curb that surge are getting an unlikely new tool: a video game. The game, titled “PlaySmart,” was developed by Dr. Lynn Fiellin and funded in part by the National Institutes of Health.
- August 09, 2021Source: ABC News
Misinformation could make first responders hesitate in life-or-death situations.