Addressing the Unique Challenges of COVID-19 for People in Recovery
September is Recovery Month, an occasion to focus on the needs of the millions of people in the U.S. living...
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What Does It Mean When We Call Addiction a Brain Disorder?
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Informed Americans no longer view addiction as a moral failing, and more and more policymakers are recognizing that punishment is an ineffective and inappropriate tool for addressing a person’s drug...
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Could Naltrexone Be Used to Treat Pregnant Women with Opioid Addiction?
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A recent study published in Lancet found that extended-release naltrexone was equally effective at reducing illicit opioid use as the partial agonist buprenorphine if patients could be successfully initiated on...
NIDA’s Past-Year Achievements Point the Way Toward Future Advances
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2017 brought exciting new basic science findings, including some striking new insights into the structure and functioning of receptors that play important roles in substance use, addiction, and pain.
Monitoring the Future Results Show Reduced Opioid Misuse but Popularity of Vaping Among Youth
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Today the results of the 2017 Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey were released by NIDA-funded researchers at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and overall the news is encouraging.
NIDA’S Avant-Garde Award Competition Continues to Foster Transformative HIV/AIDS Research
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NIH-funded science continues to make great strides in the fight against HIV. To foster such research, 10 years ago NIDA created its Avant-Garde Award competition to fund bold projects that...
Mobilizing Citizen Science to Address the Overdose Epidemic
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Social media and crowdsourcing apps could be particularly useful for gathering and sharing information in real time about overdoses and using that information to prevent overdose deaths, thereby translating “citizen...
Addressing the Opioid Crisis Means Confronting Socioeconomic Disparities
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When we speak of addiction as a chronic disorder of the brain, it thus includes an understanding that some individuals are more susceptible to drug use and addiction than others.
New Medication Formulations Could Quickly Make a Difference for Treating Opioid Addiction
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As Francis Collins and I wrote in May, NIH and NIDA are committed to an “all scientific hands on deck” effort to end the opioid crisis in America by halving...
The Concerning Link Between Inadequate Sleep and Adolescent Substance Use
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Children and adolescents require more sleep than adults. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) defines a sufficient night’s sleep for an adolescent as 8.5-9.5 hours per night. But according to...
“All Scientific Hands on Deck” to End the Opioid Crisis
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In 2015, two million people had a prescription opioid use disorder and 591,000 suffered from a heroin use disorder; prescription drug misuse alone cost the nation $78.5 billion in healthcare...
