A significant link between the use of electronic cigarettes and earlier age of asthma onset in U.S. adults was reported by UTHealth Houston researchers May 17, 2024 in JAMA Network Open.
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The more time spent on social media, the greater the likelihood that children and young people will both smoke and/or vape, suggests research published online in the respiratory journal Thorax.
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The first U.S. trial of varenicline for e-cigarette cessation shows promising results and warrants larger-scale trials, the researchers say.
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Unregulated use of fentanyl and overdose deaths have increased dramatically in recent years, and this trend was made more alarming when authorities found fentanyl laced with the animal tranquiliz...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-scientists-xylazine-combination-fentanyl.html
Young individuals between ages 16 and 18 consuming higher-potency cannabis, such as skunk, are twice as likely to have psychotic experiences from ages 19 to 24 compared to those using lower-poten...
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Using cannabis on a regular basis may be significantly more dangerous for adolescents than adults, with adolescents showing higher levels of cannabis use disorder and reporting greater negative i...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-health-cannabis-higher-adolescents-adults.html
Starting people with opioid use disorder on extended-release, injectable naltrexone (XR-naltrexone) within five to seven days of seeking treatment is more effective than the standard treatment me...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-trial-faster-approach-naltrexone-opioid.html
An estimated 321,566 children in the United States lost a parent to drug overdose from 2011 to 2021, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry.
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In a new study, Oregon Health & Science University researchers report that combined cannabis and nicotine use during pregnancy is associated with significantly higher risk of poor health outcomes...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-cannabis-nicotine-pregnancy-infant-death.html
Lab tests of counterfeit oxycodone (Oxycontin) pills seized by police in Rhode Island in 2022 found 99.3% also contained dangerous fentanyl.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-counterfeit-oxycontin-pills-fentanyl.html
The brain circuits that underlie alcohol craving and heavy drinking share some similarities between men and women, but also some key differences, a new Yale study reveals.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-brain-craving-heavy-differs-sexes.html
Eleven million U.S. adults use e-cigarettes to vape nicotine, and about half of them say that they want to stop, but many have trouble doing so because nicotine is an addictive drug.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-clinical-trial-based-cytisinicline-people.html
The U.S. opioid epidemic is a story of failed policy initiatives, missed opportunities, and more than 600,000 deaths. It's also a story with no end in sight, and for that, two economists say, we ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-economists-alternate-universe-opioid-crisis.html
For most smokers, quitting on the first attempt is likely to be unsuccessful, but a new study from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found patients were more likely to quit if the...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-trial-cessation-treatment-persistent-smokers.html
A new study examined the drinking levels and patterns of young adults before, during and after the pandemic. The researchers found alcohol use and alcohol-related problems substantially decreased...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-young-adults-pandemic.html
For as long as statistics about opioid overdose deaths have been collected in the United States, white individuals have been much more likely to die than Black individuals of the same age. With t...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-fentanyl-covid-pandemic-reshaped-racial.html
In line with their previous work, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai showed that individuals with heroin use disorder have lower activity in the anterior and dorsolatera...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-medication-treatment-group-therapy-inhibitory.html
A new study from the University of Bergen and the University of Exeter shows that pregnant women who quit smoking may prevent an abnormal mismatch between the weight of the placenta and the growt...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-pregnancy-positive-effect-placental-weight.html
Inhaling the synthetic opioid fentanyl may cause potentially irreversible brain damage (toxic leukoencephalopathy), warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports, after treating a middle-aged man ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-fentanyl-inhalation-potentially-irreversible-brain.html
Frequent teen vaping might boost the risk of exposure to lead and uranium, potentially harming brain and organ development, suggests research published online in the journal Tobacco Control.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-frequent-teen-vaping-boost-toxic.html
The number of health care professionals able to write a prescription for a key medication to treat addiction quadrupled at community health clinics from 2016 to 2021, according to a new study by ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-big-addiction-treatment-community-health.html
For years, even as opioid overdose deaths dramatically increased, doctors and other prescribers in the United States needed special permission from the federal government if they wanted to prescr...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-easier-opioid-addiction-medication.html
When exposed to stress, people with alcohol use disorder engage parts of the brain associated with both stress and addiction, which may cause them to drink or crave alcohol after a stressful expe...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-stress-brain-regions-linked-alcohol.html
A simple and convenient method to collect drug use data from the surface of a smartphone has been revealed for the first time in a new study published in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicin...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-smartphone-swabs-convenient-toxicology.html
Even though fentanyl-linked fatal overdoses are soaring among young adults, a new survey of American college students found that just 1 in 7 knew how to administer the overdose antidote drug nalo...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-young-adults-naloxone-reverse-fentanyl.html
A new study shows community pharmacies may play a key role in helping people quit smoking. The findings came out in the article "Closing the Tobacco Treatment Gap," published in the 10th annivers...
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The results of a new study, utilizing the most recent data on adolescent substance use to evaluate the effect of recreational cannabis legalization and retail sales on youth's use of cannabis, to...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-cannabis-legalization-sales-contributed-substance.html
Mount Sinai researchers, in collaboration with scientists at The Rockefeller University, have uncovered a mechanism in the brain that allows cocaine and morphine to take over natural reward proce...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-common-pathway-brain-enables-addictive.html
The US saw a 22% decline in rates of prescription-opioid overdose related emergency department (ED) visits in children 17 and younger between 2008 and 2019, but an uptick in the early part of the...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-trends-accidental-opioid-overdoses-children.html
By analyzing electronic health records, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have identified hundreds of new genes associated with tobacco use disorder. They a...
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