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August 2011; Issue 155

July 2011; Issue 154

June 2011; Issue 153

May 2011; Issue 152

April 2011; Issue 151

March 2011; Issue 150

February 2011; Issue 149

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April 20, 2012: Issue 166

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

GOVERMENT

HIV/AIDS AND HEPATITIS C

April 13, 2012: Issue 165

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

BENZODIAZEPINES

GOVERMENT

March 2012, 30: Issue 164

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

GOVERNMENT

March 2012, 23: Issue 163

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

LOCAL NEWS OF INTEREST

March 2012: Issue 162

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

February 2012: Issue 161

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

GOVERNMENT

MISCELLANEOUS

January 2012: Issue 160

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

GOVERNMENT

MISCELLANEOUS

December 2011: Issue 159

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

GOVERNMENT

HIV/HEPATITIS

November 2011: Issue 158

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

GOVERNMENT

 

October 2011: Issue 157

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

MISCELLANEOUS

September 2011: Issue 156

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

Town of Warren Maine Settles Methadone Lawsuit – Insurer to Pick Up All but $1

MARS: Helping Those in Need Down the Path to Recovery – ONDCP Recovery Month Blog

Drug Deaths Now Outnumber Traffic Fatalities in U.S., Data Show

Help Beyond Addiction – Clinics Adding Primary Medical Care to Treatment for Substance Abuse

Methadone Clinic Considers Offering Cash to Addicts – Northeast Baltimore Program Says it Wants to Attract Users to Treatment and Reduce Crime

Addiction Expert Calls for More Doctors to Be Trained in Prescribing Suboxone

Redefining Retention: Recovery from the Methadone Patient’s Perspective Research Article

Kentucky Governor Announces Prescription Drug Task Force

Substance Use Disorder Treatment Must Become Mainstream Says Former Obama Deputy Drug Czar

Addiction Medicine on the Road to Subspecialty Status

HEALTHCARE REFORM

Individual Mandate Ruling: Federal Judge Strikes Down Key Health Care Law Provision

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REPORTS & SURVEYS

National Survey Shows a Rise in Illicit Drug Use from 2008 To 2010

2011 National Drug Threat Assessment Now Available Online

MISCELLANEOUS

Rep. Barbara Lee Introduces Bill to Fight Discrimination Against People Living with HIV

Abuse of Xanax Leads a Clinic to Halt Supply

New Pain Management Rules Leave Patients Hurting

New Illinois Parity Law Recognizes State Funded Addiction Treatment Providers

New Webcast From SAMHSA Now Available Online – Treatment and Recovery in Behavioral Health for Americans With Disabilities

 

August 2011; Issue 155

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

Fentanyl and Buprenorphine Have Higher Rates of Nonmedical Use ED Visits per Dosage Units Distributed to Retail Outlets Than Other Opioids

Continuing Medical Education Improves Buprenorphine-Waivered Physicians’ Knowledge and Practice Behaviors

Small Rhode Island Study Finds IDUs More Likely to Use Diverted Buprenorphine/ Naloxone to Self-Medicate; Non-IDUs More Likely to Use to Get High

Methadone Clinics: Police, doctors worry patients allowed to drive too soon after treatment

Edmonds Military Wire: Troops becoming drug addicts — what is the solution?

Oxycodone purchases are dropping in Florida as state battles prescription drug epidemic


GOVERNMENT

New Multi-Year Data Show Annual HIV Infections In US Relatively Stable

Health Care Law Individual Mandate Ruled Unconstitutional By Appeals Court

RESEARCH

Medical Misuse of Controlled Medications Among Adolescents

Self-Medicating Anxiety Raises Risk of Social Phobia and Substance Abuse Disorders


DRUG COURTS

Painting the Current Picture: A National Report on Drug Courts and Other Problem Solving Court Programs in the US

ADDICTION

ASAM Releases New Definition of Addiction - Addiction is a Chronic Brain Disease, Not Just Bad Behavior or Bad Choices

Who Falls to Addiction, and Who Is Unscathed?

Addiction: a Fault of Chemistry – Scientific American Blog


July 2011; Issue 154

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

Research Article - Distance Traveled and Cross-State Commuting to Opioid Treatment Programs in the United States

Dr. Andrew Byrne Opinions on Levo-Methadone, Buprenorphine and Hepatitis C

Cesar Fax Series on Buprenorphine in the News

Research Examines Dentists’ Role in Painkiller Abuse

Injection Drug Users in Greatest Need of Substance Abuse Treatment

Research Scientists Create Vaccine Against Heroin High

Drexel Study: Misuse of Pain Medication is Pathway to High-Risk Behaviors

Prescription Pain Medication Addiction Prevalent Among Chronic Pain Patients

GOVERNMENT

Obama Administration Releases 2011 National Drug Control Strategy

Relieving Pain in America - A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research

New National Report Shows Many Differences in the Types and Levels of Substance Use and Mental Illness Problems Experienced Among the States

MISCELLANEOUS

ATTC Upcoming iTraining Webinar Series

SUGGESTED READING

Doctors Tell Congress How to Rein in Prescription Drug Abuse – 6/30/11

Heart Warning Added to Label on Popular Antipsychotic Drug (Seroquel) – 7/18/11


June 2011; Issue 153

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

New Report Shows Significant Growth in Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions Related to Prescription Opiates and Other Drugsfrom 1999 to 2009

Benzodiazepine Abuse Treatment Admissions Have Tripled From 1998 To 2008

EUROPAD - Journal Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems. 2011 (June), Vol. 13, No. 2 Now Available Online

Interim Methadone versus Standard Methadone: No Differences in Treatment Outcomes at 4 Months

Drug Alert Watch: Oxymorphone Abuse: A Growing Threat Nationwide

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Are Not Associated with Lower Rates of Overdose or Prescription Opioid Consumption

Preventing Avoidable Opioid-Related Deaths Top Priority for Pain Medicine Field

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Prevent Hepatitis C Virus Infection in People Who Inject Drugs — Research Abstract


MISCELLANEOUS

First Addiction Medicine Residencies to Begin in July

The POZ Timeline of HIV/AIDS — 30 Years


SUGGESTED READING

Afghanistan's Bounty - Tracking the Intricate Web of a Global Opiate Economy — 6/2/11

Profiles in Science | Nora D. Volkow - A General in the Drug War — 6/14/11

Drug Courts Save Lives, Tax Dollars by Jim Ramstad — 6/14/11

A Real Debate About Drug Policy - George P. Shultz and Paul A. Volcker on why the 'War on Drugs' has Failed — and what to do Next — 6/11/11

Many U.S. Employers to Drop Health Benefits — Medscape 6/7/11

Prescription Drugs Worth Millions to Dealers - 6/1/11

Drug (OxyContin) is Harder to Abuse, but Users Persevere — 6/14/11

Congress Again Pushes Defense to Track Rx Drug Use in Combat Zones — 6/17/11

Promoting Rehabilitation for Criminals — 6/20/11

Federal Substance-abuse Agencies Lumber Toward a Merger — 6/19/11

WAR, ON DRUGS - Pentagon resists monitoring as troops take more meds than ever — 6/22/11


May 2011; Issue 152

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

Benzodiazepine Use and Misuse Among Patients in a Methadone Program — Research Abstract

Giving Prisoners Addictive Drugs: Sometimes a Good Idea

Increase in Internet Access Parallels Growth in Prescription Drug Abuse

Second National Drug Takeback Day Collects 188 Tons of Expired Drugs

Children's Scribbles Hide a Prison Drug

Under The Influence of Methadone — There's a Better, Cheaper Option For Opioid Addicts. So Why Isn't It Widely Used?


GOVERNMENT

The Economic Impact of Illicit Drug Use on American Society

SAMHSA Issues a New Working Definition and Set of Principles on Recovery

New Study Shows 49 Percent Rise in Emergency Department Visits For Drug Related Suicide Attempts By Females Aged 50 and Older From 2005 to 2009

U. S. Senator Brown Announces Plan to Combat Prescription Drug Abuse By Targeting Doc-Shopping and Pharmacy-Hopping

Rahall Introduces Legislation to Tackle Prescription Drug Abuse

Treating HIV-Infected People With Antiretrovirals Significantly Reduces Transmission to Partners


SUGGESTED READING

Overdose on Heroin? Drug That Brings You Back is Becoming Easier to Obtain- 5/27/11

States Cut Back Efforts to Provide Drugs for HIV, AIDS — 5/22/11


April 2011; Issue 151

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

Analysis of Opioid Prescription Practices Finds Areas of Concern

Boston University Researchers Find Most Substance-Dependent Individuals Report Poor Oral Health

Methadone Recovery Field Loses Brave. Pioneering Advocate

The Military's Bad Medicine - The Military's Outdated View on Drug-Addiction Treatment Leaves Soldiers and Their Families Suffering

Deaths From Drug Overdose Decline 35 Percent After The Opening Of Supervised Injection Site


GOVERNMENT

Obama Administration Releases Action Plan to Address National Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic; Announces FDA Action Requiring Drug Makers to Develop Education Program For Prescribers

SAMHSA Introduces Guidance Changing Its Block Grant Programs to Reflect New Opportunities Provided by Parity, Health Reform and Emerging Science

SAMHSA Outlines New Strategic Initiatives Paper for Advancing the Nation's Behavioral Health

Buchanan "Pill Mill" Crackdown Draws Bipartisan Support - National Anti-Drug Coalition Urges Swift Passage

2008 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) Report n Discharges From Substance Abuse Facilities is Now Available

New Warm Line Helps Clinicians Tackle Patients' Substance Abuse


March 2011; Issue 150

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

Rockefeller Introduces Bill to Combat Abuse of Prescription Drugs

Pennsylvania Senator Ward Announces Measures to Limit Taxpayer-Funded Methadone Treatment Services

Doctors Lax in Monitoring Potentially Addicting Drugs - Study: Missed Opportunity to Reduce Opioid-Related Abuse, Addiction and Overdose

EUROPAD Journal: Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems. 2011(March), Vol. 13, No. 1 Now Available Online

Study Examines Recurrent Wound Botulism in Injection Drug Users


GOVERNMENT & FUNDING NEWS

More States Favoring Treatment Over Lock-up for Drug Offenses

DEA Announces Second Nationwide Prescription Take Back Day

SAMHSA News January/February 2011 Issue Now Available Online


RESEARCH NEWS

Drug Addiction Hijacks Several Areas of the Brain — And Almost All of One's Life

Strong Link Found Between Victimization, Substance Abuse


MISCELLANEOUS

State Database Launched to Track Health Reform Legislation


SUGGESTED READING

White House moves to fund needle exchanges as drug treatment — 2/22/11

On the Trail of Addiction - Researchers map drug users' moment-to-moment experiences as they travel the urban landscape — 3/1/11

Staten Island's Rep. Grimm calls for federal Rx database — 3/21/11


February 2011; Issue 149

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND OPIOID ABUSE/ADDICTION

Patients with Chronic Pain and a Prescription Drug Use Disorder Have Easily Identifiable Risk Factors

Maine Tops Nation in Treatment Admissions for Prescription Painkillers

NFL Players: Injury, Pain, and Opioid Misuse

CDC: Prescription Drug Overdoses and Binge Drinking Vary by Race, Income


GOVERNMENT & FUNDING NEWS

House Republicans Propose Massive Cuts to HIV/AIDS Programs

Spending On Behavioral Health Is A Shrinking Portion Of Overall Health Expenditures

FDA Announces New Steps Aimed at Cutting Risks from Acetaminophen

NIDA Addiction Science & Clinical Practice December 2010 Now Available Online


MISCELLANEOUS

Physician Substance Abuse Training 'Inadequate,' Experts Say

Increased Mortality in HIV-Infected Patients with Untreated Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders


NEW RESOURCES / EVENTS TO NOTE

New Website On Hepatitis Drug Interactions

Webinar on Parity


SUGGESTED READING

Prison Reform: A Smart Way for States to Save Money and Lives — 1/17/11

Leading The Way - General's Story of Drug Dependency Should Spur Army to Help the Injured — 1/29/11

Pharmacies Besieged by Addicted Thieves — 2/6/11

D.C.'S Leading Provider of Clean Needles to Drug Addicts to Close Feb. 25 — 2/9/11

For Some Troops, Powerful Drug Cocktails Have Deadly Results — 2/11/11

Bono Mack Seeks Closure Of National Drug Intelligence Center — 2/10/11

Report: Medicare's Lax Oversight Makes Its Prescription Drug Program Vulnerable to Fraud — 2/11/11

Wait for Liver Transplant Longer in Some States — 2/15/11


 

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