Heikkinen, Milja Taipale, Heidi Tanskanen, Antti Mittendorfer-Rutz, Ellenor Lähteenvuo, Markku Tiihonen, Jari
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Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder (AUD) is recommendable, but under-used, possibly due to deficient knowledge of medications. This study aimed to investigate the real-world effectiveness of approved pharmacological treatments (disulfiram, acamprosate, naltrexone and nalmefene) of AUD. A nation-wide, register-based cohort study. Sweden. All r...
Laslett, Anne-Marie Room, Robin
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Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Coughlin, Lara N Ilgen, Mark A Jannausch, Mary Walton, Maureen A Bohnert, Kipling M
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Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Research from cohorts of individuals with recreational cannabis use indicates that cannabis withdrawal symptoms are reported by more than 40% of those using regularly. Withdrawal symptoms are not well understood in those who use cannabis for medical purposes. Therefore, we prospectively examined the stability of withdrawal symptoms in individuals u...
Davis, Jordan P Eddie, David Prindle, John Dworkin, Emily R Christie, Nina C Saba, Shaddy DiGuiseppi, Graham T Clapp, John D Kelly, John F
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Several reports have documented risk factors for opioid use following treatment discharge, yet few have assessed sex differences, and no study has assessed risk using contemporary machine learning approaches. The goal of the present paper was to inform treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD) by exploring individual factors for each sex that are mo...
Probst, Charlotte Kilian, Carolin
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Friedman, Abigail S Oliver, Jon F Busch, Susan H
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Addiction (Abingdon, England)
In the United States, some states and localities have added vaping restrictions to established smoke-free indoor air laws in order to reduce electronic cigarette use. Yet, if smokers use e-cigarettes to quit, such restrictions could have the unintended effect of attenuating the original smoke-free air policy's effects on smoking. This study estimat...
Jo, Young Nosal, Rebecca Vittori, Angela Cordova, Leopold Vandever, Christian Alvarez, Clara Bartholomew, Tyler S Tookes, Hansel E
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Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Opioid use disorder (OUD) has led to not only increases in overdose deaths, but also increases in endocarditis and osteomyelitis secondary to injection drug use (IDU). We studied the association between initiation of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and treatment outcomes for people with infectious sequelae of IDU and OUD. This is a retro...
Brothers, Thomas D Lewer, Dan Thakrar, Ashish P
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Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Rudolph, Kara E Díaz, Iván Hejazi, Nima S van der Laan, Mark J Luo, Sean X Shulman, Matisyahu Campbell, Aimee Rotrosen, John Nunes, Edward V
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A recent study found that homeless individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) had a lower risk of relapse on extended-release naltrexone (XR-NTX) versus buprenorphine-naloxone (BUP-NX), whereas non-homeless individuals had a lower risk of relapse on BUP-NX. This secondary study examined differences in mediation pathways to medication effect between...
Wu, Yiqun Wang, Zijing Zheng, Yunting Wang, Mengying Wang, Siyue Wang, Jiating Wu, Junhui Wu, Tao Chang, Chun Hu, Yonghua
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China has a high smoking prevalence, but lacks effective tobacco control interventions. In 2015, comprehensive policies that incorporated all six aspects of MPOWER were implemented in Beijing and were considered the strictest tobacco control policy implemented in China to date. Decreases in the prevalence of active smoking and secondhand smoke (SHS...
