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For scientists: This is the first study to estimate the prevalence of adolescents in recovery from substance use among a large, epidemiological sample. The study found that 1.4% of adolescents reported both resolving a substance use problem and identified as being in recovery. Findings should be replicated in other states and with a nationally representative […]

Public Health England, King’s College London et al published Effectiveness of inpatient withdrawal and residential rehabilitation interventions for alcohol use disorder… observational, cohort study in England, a 1st of its kind. 59% of patients successfully completed treatment in 12 months. Longer treatment and structured continuing care yielded better treatment outcomes.  Highlights This is the first

Quitting alcohol cold turkey is not as hard as it seems.   t’s been over 365 days since my last drop of alcohol. Over the last year, I’ve had numerous people tell me how impressed they are, and how they wished they could do it too, followed by excuses as to why they could never do it.

Got a Drinking Problem? Do you know? Well, Heads up! If you have an AUD (Alcohol Use Disorder) then you are aging faster than others! Biological aging markers in blood and brain tissue indicate age acceleration in alcohol use disorder Conclusions: The present study is the first to simultaneously investigate epigenetic clocks, telomere length, and mtDNAcn in postmortem brain

Yet another study confirms that cannabis is not an effective treatment for opioid addiction, this time from Brazil’s University of Ribeirão Preto, Yale University et al. Their meta review covered 8,367 people given drugs to treat opioid addiction. Conclusion: There was no significant association between cannabis use and non-medical opioid use among patients receiving pharmacotherapies for OUD See

Behind every alcoholic parent, there is a child of an alcoholic and, with over 7.5 million people in the UK showing signs of alcohol dependence, that’s an awful lot of children who will be affected by their parents drinking (one in five children, to be exact.) When you grow up in the house of an addict, forced to take

What is one of the key drivers of addiction? Engagement with substances and permission to do so. Now we have some bad actors in the political space promoting greater and greater permission models to engage in and promote drug use – Thus, adding to the burden of this non-communicable disease by increasing suicide risk. In

Key Points Question: Which pharmacotherapies are associated with improved outcomes for people with alcohol use disorder? Findings: In this systematic review and meta-analysis that included 118 clinical trials and 20 976 participants, 50 mg/d of oral naltrexone and acamprosate were each associated with significantly improved alcohol consumption-related outcomes compared with placebo. Meaning:  These findings support oral naltrexone at