Opioids, such as heroin and oxycodone, are pain-relieving medications that can sometimes lead to dependence and addiction. Opioid use disorder (OUD), formerly known as opioid addiction, has become an ...
Based on the most recent statistics from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 48.4 million Americans (16.8%) aged ...
A new national study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, with colleagues at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, University of Chicago, National Opinion Research ...
A new campaign in New Haven County is seeking to increase the number of people seeking treatment for opioid misuse disorders.
It is tempting to think that people in the medical community, and especially physicians, are immune from bias and stigma. They are highly educated and well trained, and we might suspect that they ...
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and First Lady Anna Stein announced the launch of Unshame NC, a public campaign to reduce the stigma around substance use disorders.The ...
Nearly three-quarters of the over 29 million adult Americans who identify as having substance use disorder are in recovery, new federal data shows. This weekend, hundreds of advocates in the field ...
For the first time since 2018, Indiana experienced a decline in overdose deaths. Provisional data points to a 20% decrease in the number of Hoosiers who died in 2022 of a drug overdose compared to the ...
EXETER – Conchita “Connie” Castilla, LNA, Progressive Care Unit (PCU) at Exeter Hospital has been named the 2022 winner of Exeter Hospital’s Susan Burns-Tisdale Memorial Award for Patient Service.
Researchers found positive associations between depressive features and self-stigma for those with substance use disorders, with the pull to self-stigma likely stronger than in the reverse, per a ...
Substance use and substance use disorder differ by the frequency of use and the effect on a person’s life. Substance use disorder is a mental health condition. Substance use refers to using both legal ...