July-August 2017
Interventions and Assessments
- Screening and Computer-Guided 30-Minute Therapist Emergency Department Brief Intervention Plus 40-minute Booster May Reduce Drug Use Days
- No Effect of High-Dose Baclofen for the Treatment of Alcohol Dependence
Health Outcomes
- Alcohol Use Increases Cardiovascular and Renal Event Risk among Young-to-Middle-Aged Smokers with Hypertension
- More Evidence that Concurrent Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use Increases Risk of Overdose
- Prescribed Opioid Use May Lead to Nonmedical Use by Adolescents
HIV and HCV
- Baclofen Has No Effect on Days of Abstinence from Alcohol Among Patients Receiving Treatment for HCV
- Buprenorphine Treatment Retention Associated with Improved Hepatitis C Treatment Outcomes
Prescription Drugs and Pain
- Patients Treated by Higher-Intensity Opioid-Prescribing Emergency Physicians Are More Likely to Develop Persistent Opioid Use
- Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Diagnosed Before and After Chronic Pain Diagnoses Have Differing Patterns of Other Diagnoses
- Worsening, Fluctuating Pain Increases Return to Prescription Opioids after Buprenorphine-Naloxone Taper, but Additional Drug Counseling Might Help