Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Research findings from the 1930s to the 1970s suggest that paranoid psychosis should be considered a probable consequence of high-dose methamphetamine use. Individuals who experience psychotic symptoms for any substantive period after intoxication has ended should be suspected of having a functional non-organic psychosis, or a latent vulnerability ...
Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Number of symptoms related to high alcohol intake and tobacco smoking appear to account for the positive association between alcohol consumption and premature mortality.
Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
In a US national cohort of adult incident stimulant medication users in the Veterans Affairs healthcare system, measured from fiscal years 2001 to 2012, comorbid substance use disorders were common and were risk factors for development of an amphetamine use disorder (AUD). Increased mortality risk among incident users of stimulant medications was o...
Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Neither cumulative marijuana use nor current marijuana use is associated with total abdominal, visceral, subcutaneous, or intermuscular adipose tissue, or liver attenuation in mid-life.
Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
In The Netherlands, relative to non-problem gamblers, moderate-to-high-risk gamblers appear to have a stronger tendency to approach rather than to avoid gambling-related pictures compared with neutral ones. This gambling approach bias is concurrently associated with past-month gambling expenditure and duration of gambling and has been found to pred...
Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
The recent practice in Belgium and the Netherlands of accepting addiction as a reason for performing euthanasia raises important issues for the field of addiction and the practice of euthanasia. In this paper we outline some of these issues. We also argue that physicians making decisions about whether to accept requests for euthanasia from people w...
Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
US states that have more robust prescription drug monitoring programs have fewer prescription opioid overdose deaths than states with weaker PMPs. States with medical marijuana dispensaries also report fewer opioid overdose deaths than states without these.
Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
A behavioral activation group treatment for substance use (LETS ACT) appears to increase the likelihood of abstinence and reduce adverse consequences from substance use up to 12 months post-treatment.
