Longitudinal Studies of Children Will Provide Needed Insight about the Developmental Impact of the Pandemic
The HEALthy Brain and Child Development study will answer longstanding early development questions
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September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. In observance, our two institutes, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), are taking this opportunity...
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Common sense and a growing body of research suggest that patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) who receive acute care in an emergency department will be at reduced risk for...
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Effectively delivering OUD treatment in the justice system will give individuals with OUD a chance of recovery, and will make a huge difference in reducing the toll of the opioid...
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Diversity and inclusion are paramount in all sectors of society, especially in the sciences. Yet it is a well-known (and frequently lamented) fact that males continue to dominate the speaker...
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Disparities in access to quality treatment play a role in every aspect of health care and health outcomes, and the opioid crisis is no different.
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As our communities, healthcare systems, and government agencies join in the effort to reverse the epidemic of opioid overdoses and solve the opioid crisis, it is not enough to focus...
Remembering Two Neurophysiology Pioneers
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In the first half of 2019, we have lost two researchers whose work in neuronal functioning and signaling helped revolutionize our understanding not only of the neurobiology of drug use...
How People with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) Can Lend a Needed Hand in Addiction Research
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One of the major challenges in health science today is that not enough patients participate in clinical trials and other studies. Without volunteers willing and able to participate in studies...
Prenatal and Early Childhood Brain Development: The HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study
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The NIH HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) initiative is helping to fund an ambitious research project called the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study. This study, which will...
NIDA's Scientific Findings & Achievements of 2018
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Here I want to highlight just a few of the many outstanding developments in basic science, new therapeutics, and epidemiology and prevention research from the year that just ended.