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The acute psychotomimetic effect of cannabis is transitory, but evidence indicates that the chronic use, especially if started in adolescence, contributes to the occurrence of schizophrenia.

Exploring the Relationship Between Cannabidiol and Psychosis

It is no secret that a significant proportion of the criminal justice population has an issue with addiction. So what is being done about it?

The Case for Medication-Assisted Treatment: An Ethical Priority

Addiction among older adults is associated with worse medical outcomes and increased economic burden of care. The long-term use of psychoactive substances can result in adverse neurological outcomes even at therapeutic doses. 

5 Steps to Improve Outcomes in Substance Abuse in Older Patients

There is evidence in both patients with psychotic disorders and the general population that cannabis use is associated with adverse effects of psychopathology and cognition.

Novel Insights on Cannabis and Psychosis

This innovative program at Massachusetts General Hospital addresses postoperative pain while preventing relapse in patients a history of opioid use disorder.

Special Issues for Patients With SUDs Undergoing Surgery

At a time when preserving public health is our highest priority, why would we want to encourage excessive alcohol use among the vulnerable?

Tele-Teatime During the Quarantine

How much progress has been made in the area of substance use disorders in the last 40 years?

Are We Making Any Progress in Treatment and Attitudes?

Although 6 months is the recommended duration for buprenorphine treatment, many patients discontinue within a few weeks or months of treatment.

Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

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Powerfully addictive, methamphetamine has devastating effects on health and other aspects of life. What is the net result of chronic methamphetamine abuse? Here are 5 of the major indicators.

5 Manifestations of Methamphetamine Poisoning

Like it or not, social media has become a constant in our lives, and it is getting harder to unplug. But, is social media actually causing harm?

A Case of the Chicken or the Egg: Social Media, GAD, & Substance Use

Three studies highlight how important it is that when physicians prescribe opioids there can be significant and even potentially fatal consequences for the family members of those for whom they are being prescribed.

When Medications Affect More Than the Patient: Opioids and Family Members

Judgements and settlements are starting in Oklahoma against various pharmaceutical companies for their alleged roles in that state’s opioid crisis. Who would be the beneficiaries of these funds?

The Opioid Epidemic Settlements: Who Will Benefit?

Prescription drug misuse in adolescents is source driven and asking frequency questions identifies problematic substance use are some of the more significant findings.

Top Studies in Addiction: Research Recap

Cannabis is a widely used drug of abuse in adolescents. With legalization of marijuana, adolescent cannabis use may increase substantially.

More Reasons for Concern About Adolescent Cannabis Use

With internet and video gaming here to stay, game designers will continue to prioritize habitual gaming over the health of players, and the burden of pathological gaming will fall on users and their families.

Gaming Addiction in ICD-11: Issues and Implications

What happens when your patient uses cannabinoid compounds for pain, especially if there are currently taking opioids? Just in time for Pain Awareness Month, the results from these new studies provide insights and guidance.

CBD and Pain: Issues Psychiatrists Should Consider

An interplay between genetic and early environmental factors contributes to the development of substance abuse.

Gene Mutation Can Raise Risk of Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Medical professionals don’t want to prescribe too many pain killers, which may contribute to the epidemic of opioid misuse, yet they don’t want patients to needlessly suffer.

Goldilocks and the Opioids

Many have said that truth is the first casualty of war. In the war on drugs, truth died before the first shot was fired.

21st Century Reefer Madness

"He'll just have to hit bottom." That bit of outdated advice can be terrifying. How do clinicians trying to help the person with an addiction who refuses to set foot in our office render assistance?

Addiction & Substance Use

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