More than one in three patients abandoned their first buprenorphine prescription for opioid use disorder in 2024, up from 19% in 2020, according to a study published Aug. 4 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers found that 25.8% of first buprenorphine…
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A state-commissioned evaluation of New York’s assisted outpatient treatment program found that voluntary outpatient mental health services produced many of the same positive outcomes as court-ordered treatment, while participants receiving voluntary care experienced fewer arrests and psychiatric hospitalizations, Politico reported…
Psilocybin-assisted therapy was safe and associated with large reductions in post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among U.S. military veterans with severe, treatment-resistant PTSD, according to a study published July 30 in Communications Medicine. Researchers conducted an open-label pilot trial at The…
More than one-third (38%) of adolescents in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study reported lifetime substance use by age 16, with alcohol, cannabis and nicotine accounting for most use, according to a study published July 23 in Drug and…
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia increased average monthly naloxone, known as Narcan, co-prescribing for patients receiving outpatient opioid prescriptions from 3% to 84.1% through an enterprisewide quality improvement initiative, according to a study published June 16 in The Journal of Pediatrics. The…
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A majority of adults age 50 and older have never heard of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, despite the nationwide service receiving more than 26 million calls, texts and chats since its launch four years ago, according to a…
Vizient projects behavioral health outpatient volumes to grow 22% over the next decade, more than seven times the 3% increase predicted by population trends alone, according to the company’s 2026 Impact of Change forecast. Vizient’s forecast models 10-year demand projections…
Extreme opioid tolerance among illicit fentanyl users may be a major reason methadone induction has become more difficult in the fentanyl era, according to a study published June 9 in the Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Researchers from University of California…
Pediatric cannabis exposures jumped more than 6,000% among U.S. children younger than 6 between 2009 and 2024, according to a study published June 26 in the Journal of Addiction Medicine. Researchers from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and…
Emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts declined overall from Jan. 1, 2021 to Dec. 31, but adolescents continued to have the highest visit proportions and adults age 26 and older saw increases, according to a CDC study published June…