AddictionPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1111/add.16680
Rosalyn Fraser, Alan Yeung, Megan Glancy, Matthew Hickman, Hayley E Jones, Saket Priyadarshi, Kirsten Horsburgh, Sharon J Hutchinson, Andrew McAuley
{"title":"Suicide in people prescribed opioid-agonist therapy in Scotland, United Kingdom, 2011-2020: A national retrospective cohort study.","authors":"Rosalyn Fraser, Alan Yeung, Megan Glancy, Matthew Hickman, Hayley E Jones, Saket Priyadarshi, Kirsten Horsburgh, Sharon J Hutchinson, Andrew McAuley","doi":"10.1111/add.16680","DOIUrl":"10.1111/add.16680","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and aims: </strong>Opioid dependence is associated with an increased risk of suicide. Drug-related mortality among people with opioid dependence in Scotland has more than tripled since 2010; less is known about changes in suicide risk. We aimed to determine if opioid agonist therapy (OAT) in Scotland is protective against suicide and to measure trends in suicide rates in those with opioid dependence over time.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Retrospective cohort study.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Scotland, UK.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>46 453 individuals in Scotland who received at least one prescription for OAT between 2011 and 2020 with over 304 000 person-years (pys) of follow-up.</p><p><strong>Measurements: </strong>We calculated standardised mortality ratios (SMR) using the age- and sex-specific suicide rates in Scotland for years 2011-2020. We fitted multivariable competing-risk regression models to estimate suicide rates by OAT exposure and to estimate trends over time, adjusting for potential confounders.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>There were 575 deaths classed as suicide among the cohort and the overall suicide rate was 1.89 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.74-2.05) per 1000 pys. Age and sex SMR for suicide was 7.05 times (95% CI = 6.50-7.65) higher than in the general population. After adjustment, OAT was shown to be highly protective against suicide, with rates more than three times greater (adjusted hazard ratio: 3.07; 95% CI = 2.60-3.62) off OAT compared with on OAT. Suicide rates decreased over time, falling from 2.57 (95% CI = 2.19-3.02) per 1000 pys in 2011-12 to 1.48 (95% CI = 1.21-1.82) in 2019-20.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>People with opioid dependence in Scotland appear to have a greater risk of suicide than the general population. Treatment is protective, with rates of suicide lower among those on opioid agonist therapy. Suicide rates have decreased over time, during a period in which drug-related death rates in Scotland have risen to globally high levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":109,"journal":{"name":"Addiction","volume":" ","pages":"276-284"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11707309/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142491354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AddictionPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-12-05DOI: 10.1111/add.16738
{"title":"Addiction abstract length has been increased to 400 words.","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/add.16738","DOIUrl":"10.1111/add.16738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109,"journal":{"name":"Addiction","volume":" ","pages":"196"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142783359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AddictionPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-12-15DOI: 10.1111/add.16744
Christina Andrews, Wayne Hall, Keith Humphreys, John Marsden
{"title":"Disentangling debate about therapeutic and recreational use of psychedelics.","authors":"Christina Andrews, Wayne Hall, Keith Humphreys, John Marsden","doi":"10.1111/add.16744","DOIUrl":"10.1111/add.16744","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109,"journal":{"name":"Addiction","volume":" ","pages":"213-214"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142826727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AddictionPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-10-12DOI: 10.1111/add.16686
Ben Turley, Kenan Zamore, Robert P Holman
{"title":"Predictors of emergency medical transport refusal following opioid overdose in Washington, DC.","authors":"Ben Turley, Kenan Zamore, Robert P Holman","doi":"10.1111/add.16686","DOIUrl":"10.1111/add.16686","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and aims: </strong>Patient initiated transport refusal during Emergency Medical Service (EMS) opioid overdose encounters has become an endemic problem. This study aimed to quantify circumstantial and environmental factors which predict refusal of further care.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>In this cross-sectional analysis, a case definition for opioid overdose was applied retrospectively to EMS encounters. Selected cases had sociodemographic and situational/incident variables extracted using patient information and free text searches of case narratives. 50 unique binary variables were used to build a logistic model.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Prehospital EMS overdose encounters in Washington, DC, USA, from July 2017 to July 2023.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Of EMS encounters in the study timeframe, 14 587 cases were selected as opioid overdoses.</p><p><strong>Measurements: </strong>Predicted probability for covariates was the outcome variable. Model performance was assessed using Stratified K-Fold Cross-Validation and scored with positive predictive value, sensitivity and F1. Prediction accuracy and McFadden's pseudo-R squared are also determined.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>The model achieved a predictive accuracy of 78% with a high positive predictive value (0.83) and moderate sensitivity (0.68). Bystander type influenced the refusal outcome, with decreased refusal probability associated with family (nondescript) (-28%) and parents (-16%), while presence of a girlfriend increased it (+28%). Negative situational factors like noted physical trauma (-62%), poor weather (-14%) and lack of housing (-14%) decreased refusal probability. Characteristics of the emergency response team, like a prior crew member encounter (+20%) or crew experience <1 year (-36%), had a variable association with transport.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Refusal of emergency transport for opioid overdose cases in Washington, DC, USA, has expanded by 43.8% since 2017. Several social, environmental and systematic factors can predict this refusal. Logistic regression models can be used to quantify broad categories of behavior in surveillance medical research.</p>","PeriodicalId":109,"journal":{"name":"Addiction","volume":" ","pages":"296-305"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142453756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pediatric ObesityPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1111/ijpo.13181
Timo-Kolja Pförtner, Monika Gube, Thilo Koch, Josef Michels, Simone Dohle, Ibrahim Demirer
{"title":"Parental education and neighbourhood socioeconomic status in the prediction of childhood overweight: A multilevel analysis.","authors":"Timo-Kolja Pförtner, Monika Gube, Thilo Koch, Josef Michels, Simone Dohle, Ibrahim Demirer","doi":"10.1111/ijpo.13181","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijpo.13181","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study examined cross-level interaction between parental education and neighbourhood SES in predicting overweight including obesity among school-aged children.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This analysis used data from 19 984 children aged 5-6 years participating in the school-entry examination of the years 2015 to 2019 in the Aachen city region in Germany. We employed multilevel logistic regression models to predict overweight based on parental education and neighbourhood SES, along with their cross-level interaction, while controlling for several characteristics of the child.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Children from families with intermediate (OR: 1.99; 95% CI, 1.65-2.40) and low parental education (OR: 2.55; 95% CI, 1.92-3.39) and from neighbourhoods with intermediate (OR: 1.25; 95% CI, 1.02-1.53) and low SES (OR: 1.61; 95% CI, 1.29-2.02) were at significantly higher odds for overweight. There was an indication of a cross-level interaction effect (p-value <0.10) to the disadvantage of children with higher parental education, suggesting that inequalities in overweight decrease in more deprived neighbourhoods. The predicted probability of overweight for children with high parental education increased from 6.4% in high SES neighbourhoods to 7.8% in intermediate and 9.9% in low SES neighbourhoods. Sensitivity analyses for obesity and a higher context level of spatial SES confirmed the results.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results highlight the crucial role of both individual and contextual socioeconomic conditions in predicting childhood overweight. They also suggest that the impact of neighbourhood socioeconomic status on childhood overweight varies by parental education, particularly disadvantaging children with higher parental education, indicating a social contagion of overweight through spatial disadvantage.</p>","PeriodicalId":217,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Obesity","volume":" ","pages":"e13181"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11710947/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142454274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin Buer, Jürgen Dönitz, Martin Milner, Sonja Mehlhorn, Claudia Hinners, Janna Siemanowski-Hrach, Julia K Ulrich, Daniela Großmann, Doga Cedden, Ralf Nauen, Sven Geibel, Gregor Bucher
Obesity ReviewsPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-10-08DOI: 10.1111/obr.13847
Ravisha S Jayawickrama, Briony Hill, Moira O'Connor, Stuart W Flint, Erik Hemmingsson, Lucy R Ellis, Yaxing Du, Blake J Lawrence
{"title":"Efficacy of interventions aimed at reducing explicit and implicit weight bias in healthcare students: A systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Ravisha S Jayawickrama, Briony Hill, Moira O'Connor, Stuart W Flint, Erik Hemmingsson, Lucy R Ellis, Yaxing Du, Blake J Lawrence","doi":"10.1111/obr.13847","DOIUrl":"10.1111/obr.13847","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the efficacy of interventions aimed at reducing weight bias in healthcare students, and to explore factors that may impact intervention success. A systematic review and random-effects meta-analyses were conducted by including studies that examined the efficacy of weight bias reduction interventions for healthcare students. Of the 3463 journal articles and dissertations screened, 67 studies (within 64 records) met inclusion criteria, with 35 studies included in the meta-analyses (explicit = 35, implicit [and explicit] = 10) and 32 studies included in the narrative synthesis (explicit = 34, implicit [and explicit] = 3). Weight bias interventions had a small but positive impact, g = -0.31 (95% CI = -0.43 to -0.19, p < 0.001), in reducing students' explicit weight bias but there was no intervention effect on implicit weight bias, g = -0.12 (95% CI = -0.26 to 0.02, p = 0.105). There was considerable heterogeneity in the pooled effect for explicit bias (I<sup>2</sup> = 74.28, Q = 132.21, df = 34, p < 0.001). All subgroup comparisons were not significant (p > 0.05) and were unable to explain the observed heterogeneity. Narrative synthesis supported meta-analytic findings. The small but significant reduction of explicit weight bias encourages the continued testing of interventions, irrespective of variation in individual intervention components. Contrarily, reductions in implicit weight bias may only be possible from a large societal shift in negative beliefs and attitudes held towards people living in larger bodies.</p>","PeriodicalId":216,"journal":{"name":"Obesity Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"e13847"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11711078/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142386798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Branched-chain amino acid metabolism: Pathophysiological mechanism and therapeutic intervention in metabolic diseases.","authors":"Shama Mansoori, Melody Yuen-Man Ho, Kelvin Kwun-Wang Ng, Kenneth King-Yip Cheng","doi":"10.1111/obr.13856","DOIUrl":"10.1111/obr.13856","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs), including leucine, isoleucine, and valine, are essential for maintaining physiological functions and metabolic homeostasis. However, chronic elevation of BCAAs causes metabolic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes (T2D), and metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD). Adipose tissue, skeletal muscle, and the liver are the three major metabolic tissues not only responsible for controlling glucose, lipid, and energy balance but also for maintaining BCAA homeostasis. Under obese and diabetic conditions, different pathogenic factors like pro-inflammatory cytokines, lipotoxicity, and reduction of adiponectin and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors γ (PPARγ) disrupt BCAA metabolism, leading to excessive accumulation of BCAAs and their downstream metabolites in metabolic tissues and circulation. Mechanistically, BCAAs and/or their downstream metabolites, such as branched-chain ketoacids (BCKAs) and 3-hydroxyisobutyrate (3-HIB), impair insulin signaling, inhibit adipogenesis, induce inflammatory responses, and cause lipotoxicity in the metabolic tissues, resulting in multiple metabolic disorders. In this review, we summarize the latest studies on the metabolic regulation of BCAA homeostasis by the three major metabolic tissues-adipose tissue, skeletal muscle, and liver-and how dysregulated BCAA metabolism affects glucose, lipid, and energy balance in these active metabolic tissues. We also summarize therapeutic approaches to restore normal BCAA metabolism as a treatment for metabolic diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":216,"journal":{"name":"Obesity Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"e13856"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11711082/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142491753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}