January-February 2014
Interventions and Assessments
- Referral to Treatment for Substance Use Disorders Improves Depression Symptoms in Primary Care Patients
- Little Evidence for Efficacy of Continuing Care in Treatment of Patients with Alcohol Use Disorders
- Knowledge Gaps Persist in Assessment of the Effectiveness of Alcohol Brief Interventions in Primary Care
- Slow-Release Oral Morphine: Another Option for Opioid Agonist Therapy?
- Combined Motivational Interviewing/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has Modest Effect on Treatment Outcomes for Patients with Alcohol Use Disorders and Depression
Health Outcomes
- Alcohol Use Disorder in a Secret Service Agent: Commander James Bond, 007
- What is the Quality of Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids to Treat Chronic Pain?
- The Impact of Prenatal Exposure on Substance Use in Adolescence
- People with Injection Drug Use Primarily Take Diverted Buprenorphine to Avoid Withdrawal
- Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Risk of Skin Cancers: A Report from the Women’s Health Initiative
- Estimations of Alcohol-Attributable and Alcohol-Preventable Mortality in Denmark
HIV and HCV
- In HIV, Injection Drug Use, Independent of Hepatitis C Coinfection, is Associated with Increased Mortality and Worse HIV Treatment Response
- Alcohol Consumption Does Not Affect HIV Surrogate Markers in Treated or Untreated HIV-Infected Individuals
- Hepatitis C Infection and Mortality Among HIV-Infected Patients with Alcohol Problems