The relationship between internet addiction and peer bullying level of sixth and seventh grade secondary school students - G ülbetekin E, Gül Can F.
PROBLEM: The research aimed to determine the relationship between internet addiction and peer bullying in sixth and seventh-grade students. METHOD: The population of the study consisted of students in the sixth and seventh grades of secondary schoo...
Source: SafetyLit - May 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Discovery suggests route to safer pain medications
Strategies to treat pain without triggering dangerous side effects such as euphoria and addiction have proven elusive. For decades, scientists have attempted to develop drugs that selectively activate one type of opioid receptor to treat pain while not activating another type of opioid receptor linked to addiction. Unfortunately, those compounds can cause a different unwanted effect: hallucinations.
Source: World Pharma News - May 5, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news

Largest International Operation Against Darknet Trafficking of Fentanyl and Opioids Results in Record Arrests and Seizures
FDA OCI, Operation SpecTor, 288 arrests, JCODE, disrupt, fentanyl, opioid, trafficking, darknet, dark web, U.S., Europe, South America, fentanyl, opioids, cybercrime, trafficking, seizures, Europol ’s European Cybercrime Centre, EC3, ProtecTor, public, awareness, addiction, narcotics,
Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases - May 4, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: DOJ Source Type: news

SAMHSA: Notice of Meeting for the Interdepartmental Substance Use Disorders Coordinating Committee (ISUDCC)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will hold a virtual public meeting of the Interdepartmental Substance Use Disorders Coordinating Committee (ISUDCC) on June 5, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Eastern. Agenda items include information on the progress of the ISUDCC Working Groups; discussion of the ISUDCC Reauthorization; and sections 1262 and 1263 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, commonly known as the Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment (MAT) Act and Medication A ccess and Training Expansion (MATE) Act.
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - May 4, 2023 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news

Young men at highest risk of schizophrenia linked with cannabis use disorder
NIH study highlights the need to proactively screen for, prevent, and treat cannabis use disorder especially among young people
Source: NIDA News - May 4, 2023 Category: Addiction Tags: Addiction Science, Brain, College-Age and Young Adults, Health and Medical Professionals, Marijuana, Men, People with Drug Use Disorders, Researchers, Young Adults, News Release Source Type: news

HPU researcher receives $2.2 million NIH grant to find better treatment for drug addiction
A High Point University professor has received a $2.2 million grant to try to find a better way to treat for drug addiction and relapse. The National Institutes of Health awarded $2,235,000 to Comfort Boateng, an assistant professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in High Point University ’s Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy. The grant is part of the Avenir Award Program, which supports early stage investigators proposing innovative research in chemistry and pharmacology related to substance abuse…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - May 3, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel Finnegan Source Type: news

Smartphone addiction and psychological distress among Vietnamese college students: cyber-victimization as a mediator and academic stress as a moderator - Ho TTQ, Tran TKL, Huynh SV.
PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of cyber-victimization (CV) and the moderating effect of academic stress (AS) in the link between smartphone addiction (SPA) and psychological distress (PD) among a sample of Vietnamese c...
Source: SafetyLit - May 3, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

What Harm Reduction Taught Me About My Ex ’ s Addiction —And Myself
Ted (not his real name) arrived at my apartment two hours after Jason (also not his real name) texted him. I was expecting somebody young, but Ted was an older man, in his 60s or 70s. The van he pulled up in was white and unmarked. He was wearing a red turtleneck sweater, jeans, old sneakers. He had a ponytail. He looked like someone’s off-beat, slightly disheveled great uncle. Everything about him—the van, especially—embarrassed me. He hauled a bag of supplies: rapid blood tests, forms secured on a clipboard, and condoms. I was panicking because Jason, who was my on-and-off-again boyfriend at the time, h...
Source: TIME: Health - May 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Hanna Halperin Tags: Uncategorized freelance society Source Type: news

Surgeon general lays out framework to tackle loneliness and mend the social fabric of our nation
In people of all ages, loneliness is associated with higher risks of issues including heart disease, dementia, addiction, suicidality, and self-harm.
Source: PsycPORT.com - May 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Food Addiction Tied to Type 2 Diabetes, Even Beyond BMI Food Addiction Tied to Type 2 Diabetes, Even Beyond BMI
Body weight only partially explains the association between food addiction and type 2 diabetes, researchers found, and that association was attenuated among people with mental disorders.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Diabetes Headlines - May 2, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology News Source Type: news

Study identifies compounds that may improve treatment of opioid addiction
Searching for compounds with the therapeutic effects of ibogaine but not its toxicity, researchers found two that eased depression and opioid withdrawal.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - May 2, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

High potency cannabis use, mental health symptoms and cannabis dependence: triangulating the evidence - Petrilli K, Hines L, Adams S, Morgan CJ, Curran HV, Freeman TP.
BACKGROUND: Cannabis potency (concentration of Δ-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol) has been associated with risks of adverse mental health outcomes and addiction but no studies have triangulated evidence from self-report and objective measures of cannabis potency. ...
Source: SafetyLit - May 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

'Safe supply' initiatives: are they a recipe for harm through reduced healthcare input and supply induced toxicity and overdose? - Roberts E, Humphreys K.
Within the addiction field some advocates support a suite of de-regulatory policies which aim to reduce harm by providing people who use drugs with a 'safe supply' of pharmaceutical grade medications. Such initiatives have commenced without the evidence st...
Source: SafetyLit - May 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Jane ' s Addiction ' s Perry Farrell How He Came Up With the Name for Lollapalooza
Perry Farrell talks with Katie Daryl on how he came up with the name for Lollapalooza, how he's approached other festivals who've had "palooza" in their names over the years, and more on At Home and Social! Catch the full conversation on At Home and Social: https://youtu.be/jAlt53MEwHU Subscribe…#perryfarrell #katiedaryl #lollapalooza #homeandsocial #subscribe #axstv #morganfairchild #bigchill #veryverybestofthe #karencarpenter
Source: Reuters: Health - April 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Focal Analysis of the relation between the components of mobile addiction and the rate of young people high-risk driving behaviors - Sharifi Rahnmo S, Seraji F, Sharifi Rahnmo M, Nouri E, Fathi A.
Introduction ... [1-3]. The word "addiction" is used in recent studies to describe a wide range of behaviors, such as cell phone abuse [4]. Mobile addiction is a non-substance and behavioral addiction which is called as an obsessive-compulsive disorder [5...
Source: SafetyLit - April 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

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