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January-February 2017

Interventions and Assessments

  • How Best to Implement Alcohol Screening and Brief Advice in Primary Care?
  • Electronic Interventions for Cannabis Use Have Small Effects

Health Outcomes

  • Factors Associated with Hazardous Alcohol Use Among Individuals Who Inject Drugs
  • Heavy Drinking Is Common and Problematic in Primary Care Patients with Drug Use
  • No Association Between State-Controlled Substance Regulation and Adverse Opioid-Related Outcomes Among Vulnerable Patients
  • Does Alcohol Screening Score Predict Alcohol-Related Health Outcomes?
  • Adolescent Nonmedical Use of Sedatives/Anxiolytics Is Associated with Substance Use Disorder Later in Life
  • Parents’ Attitudes About Adolescent Marijuana Use May Be Changing

HIV and HCV

  • Do Patient Navigation and Financial Incentives Improve HIV Viral Suppression in Hospitalized Patients with Substance Use Disorder?
  • HCV Treatment Is Effective Among People with Drug Use and/or Receiving Opioid Agonist Treatment
  • Opioid Agonist Treatment Improves Antiretroviral Treatment Engagement and Outcomes

Prescription Drugs and Pain

  • Recent Pain Severity Associated with Subsequent Opioid Use in Patients with Prescription Opioid Use Disorder and Chronic Pain

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