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substance use disorder

Naloxone Training, Social Support, and Stigma Reduction Among Top Needs of College Students in Recovery

October 31, 2025

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health policy

Professor Imparts Value of Collegiate Recovery Services at Congressional Briefing

August 4, 2025

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Community Health Sciences

College Shouldn’t Be a Relapse Risk: Why Collegiate Recovery Programs Deserve Sustainable Funding

July 28, 2025

Global Health

Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Are Driving the Increase in US Excess Mortality—and Adults Without College Degrees Are Bearing Most of the Burden

June 13, 2025

All News

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

April 21, 2025

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Research

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

March 14, 2025

opioids

Medicaid Expansion Does Not Lead to Overuse of Prescription Opioids

March 12, 2025

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health policy

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."

drug use

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

June 6, 2024

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strategic direction

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

April 1, 2024