Encourage People with Substance Use Disorders to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19
Substance use disorders can increase the risk for becoming severely ill from COVID-19, making vaccinations vital.
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Listening to Patients’ Voices in Developing New Opioid Addiction Treatments
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One of the pillars of the current federal initiatives to end the opioid crisis is the development of new medications to treat opioid addiction. The FDA Patient-Focused Drug Development Initiative...
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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...
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.