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onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alison Knopf
Last week the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) annual meeting took place in New Orleans. It opened June 15 with plenaries by Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and George Koob, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA).
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1 week ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alison Knopf
At the annual meeting hosted by the Coalition of Medication-Assisted Treatment Providers and Advocates of New York State (COMPA) last week in New York City, New York State, the federal government, and the opioid treatment provider (OTP) community came together to focus on expanding methadone treatment.
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1 week ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alison Knopf
Last week the New York State Senate passed S.614 sponsored by Senator Gustavo Rivera. The Transitional Reentry Health Act would ensure that people returning to the community from incarceration are enrolled in Medicaid prior to their release.
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1 week ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alison Knopf
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2 weeks ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alison Knopf
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2 weeks ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alison Knopf
A recent study has found that urine drug test (UDT) data can be used to predict overdose deaths within days, instead of the 6 months public health policymakers usually need to wait. In a JAMA Network Open study, researchers from Ohio State and Millennium Health concluded that UDT is an early warning system for emergency medical teams, substance use disorder (SUD) providers on dangerous new drugs like xylazine or nitazenes.
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2 weeks ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alison Knopf
Why shouldn't we reschedule cannabis? This is a question being bandied about from within the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which wants to be able to study it, and in fact the entire Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which in 2023 asked the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to do just that.
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2 weeks ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alison Knopf
Alcohol-related liver deaths doubled between 1999 and 2022, with the greatest increase occurring from 2018-2022, according to recently published research. According to the study, “Alcohol-associated liver disease mortality,” published in JAMA Network Open on June 11, there were disproportionate increases among women, young adults aged 25 to 44 years, and American Indian and Alaskan Native populations.
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2 weeks ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alison Knopf
Claiming that diagnosis codes are not used enough and sometimes just wrong, researchers are proposing that the Addiction Behaviors Checklist can be automated to better identify problematic opioid use. The researchers used a retrospective cohort and evaluated the data used by electronic health records with an automated clinical tool could be used. Data was deidentified. The cohort of 8,063 chronic pain patients was validated with 100 individuals with chronic pain.
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2 weeks ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alison Knopf
Last week Ivana Sanchez left the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Agency Directors (NASADAD) where she has been public policy intern since January while pursuing her master's degree in Addiction Policy and Practice at Georgetown University. She is continuing her education in medical school. The new public policy intern is Robert Morrison Jr., who sill be at NASAD during the summer.
