Treatment
Addiction treatment goes online
In late December, faculty members from Yale School of Medicine launched a free online course about the fundamentals of managing substance use disorders. The course, called Addiction Treatment: Clinical Skills for Healthcare Providers, is a…
A Circuit Causally Linked With Spontaneous Nicotine Addiction Remissions May Be a Powerful Addiction…
By studying 129 people who were daily cigarette smokers and addicted to nicotine at the time they suffered brain damage, a team of researchers has identified a brain network that they believe is causally linked with remission from nicotine…
Panel Calls for Integrated Care, Physician Training to Combat Rising Mental Health and Addiction…
Integrating primary care with behavioral health services, improving provider training on mental health, and policy changes were all noted as strategies to combat the rising mental health and substance abuse epidemic during a keynote session…
Addiction
Buffalo community members concerned about addiction clinic
BUFFALO, NY — The latest opioid statistics for Erie County show a continued trend in the wrong direction.
The county saw its highest number of opioid-related deaths in 2016 at 301.
It trended downward from there, down to 156 in 2019. But…
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Secretary General of the UNNero was famously accused of fiddling while Rome burned. Today, some leaders are doing worse. They are throwing fuel on the fire. Literally. As the fallout of Russia's invasion of Ukraine ripples across the…
‘Night of the Living Rez’ chronicles one tribe’s struggle with poverty and…
NPR's Melissa Block talks with author Morgan Talty about his book, "Night of the Living Rez," a series of short stories about members of a Native American tribe wrestling with poverty and addiction.
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