May-June 2014
Interventions and Assessments
- Implementation of Screening and Brief Intervention with Fidelity in Trauma Centers: Challenging but Not Impossible
- Predictors of Sustained Heavy Episodic Drinking Among Young Adults
- No Clear Advantage of In-Person Versus Computer-Based Brief Interventions for Illicit Drug Use
- Patients at Risk for Opioid Overdose can be Identified through Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
- What is the Optimal T-ACE Screening Cut-Point for At-Risk Alcohol Use in Pregnant Women?
Health Outcomes
- Methadone Results in Longer Treatment Retention than Buprenorphine; Higher Doses are Associated with Longer Retention for both Medications
- Symptoms—Not Frequency of Use—Predict Adverse Health Effects Associated with Cannabis Use in Young Men
- Maintenance Therapy as Harm Reduction: Reducing Overdose Deaths with Opioid Agonist Treatment
- Buprenorphine Treatment: A Missed Opportunity to Offer Smoking Cessation Treatment
- Heavy Episodic Drinking Greatly Increases Mortality Risk Among People with Low-Risk Alcohol Use
- Underreporting of Alcohol Intake Affects the Relation of Alcohol to the Risk of Cancer
HIV and HCV
- Identification and Treatment of People with HIV and Injection Drug Use will Help Reduce Transmission of HIV
- Older Adults with HIV and Multiple Substance Use have Worse HIV Medication Adherence