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Hospitalized Patients Who Receive Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Can Substantially Reduce Heavy Drinking

April 21, 2025

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Fewer Than Half of Medicaid Managed Care Plans Provide All FDA-approved Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder

March 14, 2025

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Medicaid Expansion Does Not Lead to Overuse of Prescription Opioids

March 12, 2025

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More than Half of College Students Report Alcohol-Related Harms from Others

January 7, 2025

A photo of Makayla Cox, who died of a fentanyl overdose at age 16, is displayed among other portraits on "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died from a fentanyl overdose, at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. - America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl -- more than seven times the number a decade ago. "This is the most dangerous epidemic that weve seen," said Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). "Fentanyl is not like any other illicit narcotic, its that deadly instantaneously."

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One-third of US Adults Know Someone Who Has Died from Drug Overdose

June 6, 2024

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Reducing Late-Night Alcohol Sales Curbed Violent Crimes by 23% Per Year in a Baltimore Neighborhood

April 1, 2024

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Formerly Incarcerated Students Work More Hours, Have More Severe Substance Use Disorder

March 1, 2024

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Heavy Alcohol, Drug Use Linked to Increased Risk of Falls among People with HIV

February 16, 2024

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Accidental Death Rates among US Soldiers Deployed in Afghanistan/Iraq Wars Differ by Time Since Deployment, Age, and Gender

January 25, 2024

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Alcohol Consumption May Have Positive and Negative Effects on Cardiovascular Disease Risk

November 21, 2023