January-February 2019
Interventions and Assessments
- Telemedicine Can Be Used to Provide Access to Buprenorphine Treatment in Rural Areas
- Baclofen for Alcohol Use Disorder: Efficacy Unclear at Best, Harms Becoming Clearer
Health Outcomes
- Awareness of Opioid Risks Does Not Reduce Non-medical Use by Youth
- Buprenorphine Dose Does Not Impact Severity of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome
- Evidence of an Association Between Alcohol Use and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
- Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Mortality in People With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
HIV and HCV
- Antiretroviral and Opioid Agonist Treatment Improve Survival Among People With HIV Who Inject Drugs
- Early-Onset, Regular Marijuana Use Is Associated with Learning and Memory Impairment in People Living With HIV
- People Who Inject Drugs Have Low Knowledge of and Mixed Interest in HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
Prescription Drugs and Pain
- Chronic Pain, Alcohol and Other Drug Use, and Alcohol and Drug Overdoses Among Addiction Treatment Patients
- Chronic Opioid Therapy Risk Reduction Initiatives Did Not Reduce Opioid Overdose