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September-October 2015

Interventions and Assessments

  • Two Screening Questions Detect Drug Use Disorders in Primary Care
  • Efficacy of Electronic Interventions for Unhealthy Alcohol Use
  • Titrated-Dose Baclofen May Have Efficacy for Treating Alcohol Use Disorder
  • Clinical Reminders Insufficient to Implement Alcohol Screening
  • Can Brief Alcohol Intervention That Includes Referral Lead to Receipt of Treatment by Medical and Surgical Inpatients?
  • Brief Alcohol Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults Result in Modest Reductions in Consumption
  • Response to Naltrexone for Alcohol Use Disorder is Not Mediated by an Opioid Receptor Polymorphism
  • Does Opioid Agonist Therapy for Prisoners Reduce Drug-Related Deaths After Prison Release?

Health Outcomes

  • Effects of Alcohol on Blood Pressure Among Women: A Randomized Trial

HIV and HCV

  • Buprenorphine Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Improves Primary Care-Based Addiction Treatment Engagement Among People With and At Risk for HIV
  • Alcohol-Related Diagnoses Increase the Risk of Hospitalization Among People with HIV
  • Receipt of Both Antiretroviral Therapy and Opioid Agonist Therapy Associated with Decreased Mortality Among People with HIV and Injection Drug Use
  • Benzodiazepine Use is an Independent Risk Factor for HIV Infection Among People with Injection Drug Use

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