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National focus on overdose prevention should include alcohol too, study suggests

October 11, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Opioids, Overdose

The need to prevent and rapidly treat opioid overdoses is in the spotlight. But a new study suggests more focus is needed on the risk of alcohol overdoses among people who use opioids of all kinds, and other drugs. Ninety percent of residential recovery center patients surveyed had overdosed on alcohol at least once, and 80 percent of them said that at the time of their overdose, they had also been taking other drugs.

Research Results

New Opioid Prescription Dosages Drop 22 Percent in Penn Medicine’s New Jersey Practices Following Changes to State Law and Health Record Alerts

October 11, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Addiction, Health Policy, Opioid Epidemic, Opioids, Penn Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Substance Abuse

The total amount of opioids dispensed per new opioid prescription decreased by 22 percent in Penn Medicine outpatient practices in New Jersey after the state passed a law limiting prescriptions to a five-day supply for new opioid prescriptions. Penn Medicine implemented an electronic health record (EMR) alert, or “nudge,” to notify clinicians if that limit had been reached. The study, published online today in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, is one of the first evaluations of a state law’s impact on prescribing outcomes, and is the first report of an EMR being used to make compliance with prescribing limits easier. Importantly, after the prescribing limit and alert went into effect there was no evidence to suggest pain control worsened.

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Public reporting on aortic valve surgeries has decreased access, study finds

October 11, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Addiction, Cardiology, GUIDELINES/TREATIES/AGREEMENTS, HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS/SERVICES, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT/TRACKING SYSTEMS, MEDICINE/HEALTH, MORTALITY/LONGEVITY, Public Health, SOCIOECONOMICS

Patients with endocarditis less likely to receive the surgery

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Using mindfulness as a tool to help fight the opioid crisis

October 11, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Addiction, BEHAVIOR, Clinical Trials, Grants/Funding, HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS/SERVICES, Internal Medicine, MEDICINE/HEALTH, Mental Health, pain

Boston Medical Center awarded multi-million dollar grant as a part of NIH HEAL initiative

Announcement

UC San Diego’s Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research Awards Grants for Five Novel Studies

October 10, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Addiction, Alcohol, Anorexia, Arthritis, Cannabis, CBD, Eating Disorders, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Psychiatry

The Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at University of California San Diego School of Medicine announces $3 million in research grants to explore new applications of cannabis for a number of novel medical applications.

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‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves

October 10, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Addiction, Cell Biology, MEDICINE/HEALTH, Neurobiology, PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES, Physiology

NIH mouse study could prompt scientists to rethink how benzodiazepines work

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GPs stopped giving alcohol advice to patients when they stopped being paid to do so

October 10, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Addiction, Alcohol, HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS/SERVICES, HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, MEDICINE/HEALTH, Public Health

When the Department of Health (England) introduced financial incentives to encourage general practitioners (GPs) to talk to patients about their

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American Journal of Roentgenology reviews vaping-associated lung injury findings

October 9, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Addiction, CRITICAL CARE/EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Diagnostics, HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS/SERVICES, Internal Medicine, MEDICINE/HEALTH, Public Health, PULMONARY/RESPIRATORY MEDICINE, SMOKING/TOBACCO

AJR details patterns of inhalation lung injury associated with vaporizers and e-cigarettes: hypersensitivity pneumonitis, diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, acute eosinophilic pneumonia, organizing pneumonia, lipoid pneumonia, giant cell interstitial pneumonia