Mothers in recovery are reuniting with their children, thanks to housing designed to help
A unique approach to supportive housing is helping mothers recovering from addiction in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside reunite with their children. The concept, which is mostly funded by private donations: keep families together, create supports to help them heal, and break the generational cycle of addiction.
Source: CBC | Health - July 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news

NHS is rapidly expanding the opening of gambling addiction centres across the country this summer
The seven new gambling addiction centres will be in Milton Keynes, Thurrock in Essex, Bristol, Derby, Liverpool, Blackpool and Sheffield.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Dark personality traits and online behaviors: Portuguese versions of cyberstalking, online harassment, flaming and trolling scales - Leite, Cardoso S, Monteiro AP.
The main objective of this study is to assess moderation effects of online behaviors between personality traits and addiction to Internet. To this end, four instruments were validated for Portuguese version through confirmatory factor analysis and explorat...
Source: SafetyLit - July 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Media, Marketing, and Internet Issues Source Type: news

Tribeca Film About Ibogaine: A Revolutionary Treatment For Addiction And PTSD?
Activists Howard and Norma Lotsof devote their lives to the study of ibogaine to help people with addiction and mental illness. Director Lucy Walker humanizes suffering.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - June 30, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Lipi Roy, MD, MPH, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news

A New Genetic Test Could Determine Which Weight Loss Drug Will Actually Work For You
As popular as the latest drugs being touted for weight loss, including Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Wegovy, are on social media, like any medications, they don’t work in the same way for everyone. Not all are even approved to treat obesity, but are being used off label as a relatively easy way to shed pounds. While some users lose up to 20% or more of their body weight on these drugs, others struggle to shed single digit percentages. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, since obesity isn’t a monolith and the factors that contribute to extra pounds are different for different people. In the same way that cancer do...
Source: TIME: Health - June 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Weight loss Source Type: news

Relationships between depression, fear of missing out and social media addiction: the mediating role of self-esteem - Sommantico M, Ramaglia F, Lacatena M.
The present study examines the relationships between depression, self-esteem, fear of missing out, online fear of missing out, and social media addiction in a sample of 311 Italian young adults (66.2% women and 33.8% men), ages 18-35 yrs. (M = 23.5; SD = 3...
Source: SafetyLit - June 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Media, Marketing, and Internet Issues Source Type: news

The internment of patients undergoing treatment for alcohol addiction as a result of a specific interpretation of legal provisions by some judicial authorities - Koca ńda K, Głuszek S, Łoś R, Matulińska B, Zwierzchowski D, Zwierzchowska-Łucka A.
In the Polish legal system, each medical procedure requires patient's consent. Exemptions from the obligation to obtain such a consent are limited by the legislator to exceptional situations, i.e., when the delay caused by the procedure for obtaining conse...
Source: SafetyLit - June 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

'My drinking was out of control - but now I know I can recover'
Scotland's only NHS-funded rehab launches a new peer support project to save people from addiction.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - June 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pregnant Women on Anti-Addiction Medication Had Their Babies Taken Away
Federal law has put thousands of women on anti-addiction medications into an impossible bind: Give up your treatment or risk losing your baby.
Source: NYT Health - June 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shoshana Walter Tags: Child Abuse and Neglect Buprenorphine (Drug) Law and Legislation Children and Childhood Babies and Infants Parenting Pregnancy and Childbirth Women and Girls Opioids and Opiates Drug Abuse and Traffic Native Americans Families and Fa Source Type: news

They Followed Doctors ’ Orders. Then Their Children Were Taken Away.
Federal law has put thousands of women on anti-addiction medications into an impossible bind: Give up your treatment or risk losing your baby.
Source: NYT Health - June 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shoshana Walter Tags: Child Abuse and Neglect Buprenorphine (Drug) Law and Legislation Children and Childhood Babies and Infants Parenting Pregnancy and Childbirth Women and Girls Opioids and Opiates Drug Abuse and Traffic Native Americans Families and Fa Source Type: news

Opioids are overrated for some common back pain, a study suggests
New research calls into question prescribing the drugs even for short-term pain relief – especially given the risk of addiction. (Image credit: South_agency/Getty Images)
Source: NPR Health and Science - June 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Will Stone Source Type: news

Once-Resistant Rural Court Officials Begin to Embrace Medications to Treat Addiction
Stigma around medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is decreasing, leading more judges, particularly rural judges, to offer MOUD as an alternative to jail time. Highlights the Tennessee Recovery Oriented Compliance Strategy (TN-ROCS) as an example program. First introduced in one judicial district, it is now being replicated in other parts of the state. Notes that availability of treatment in rural areas remains an issue.
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - June 28, 2023 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news

Increased incidence of mixed drug toxicity deaths involving tapentadol - a forensic study - Stephenson L, van den Heuvel C, Humphries M, Scott T, Byard RW.
Tapentadol is a relatively new synthetic opioid analgesic prescribed for the management of moderate to severe pain. While tapentadol has been shown to be more effective than traditional opioid analgesics, it still carries the risk of addiction, abuse, and ...
Source: SafetyLit - June 26, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Identifying biomarkers of drug use recurrence using wearable device technologies and phone applications - Mahoney JJ, Finomore VS, Marton JL, Ramadan J, Hodder SL, Thompson-Lake DGY, Marsh CB, Koch-Gallup N, Ranjan M, Rezai AR.
BACKGROUND: Identifying predictors of drug use recurrence (DUR) is critical to combat the addiction epidemic. Wearable devices and phone-based applications for obtaining self-reported assessments in the patient's natural environment (e.g., ecological momen...
Source: SafetyLit - June 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Yale New Haven Hospital dispenses first three-day supply of methadone
The hospital ’s first dispensation of a three-day take home supply of methadone to treat opioid use disorder follows new standards in addiction treatment.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - June 23, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

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