{"title":"NASEM alcohol committee on problems with self-reports","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34672","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The consensus report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released last year on moderate alcohol consumption and health did not issue recommendations. But it did find a link between moderate alcohol consumption and health problems. Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a guest editorial by members of that NASEM panel on why it was so difficult to come up with specific dietary guidelines, despite the fact that there were connections between even moderate alcohol consumption and health harms such as cancer and death.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 38","pages":"4-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145228211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Researchers find limited uptake on OTC naloxone","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34674","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration approved over-the-counter (OTC) naloxone more than two years ago, but uptake has been limited, according to research published online September 15 in <i>JAMA Internal Medicine</i>. The research, from RAND, found that the peak in sales was immediately after approval, and decreased rapidly through August of 2024 when it stabilized. The purpose of the approval was to make the opioid reversal drug more accessible.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 38","pages":"7-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145228215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biofeedback on heart rate can reduce alcohol craving: Study","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34675","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A randomized clinical trial (RCT) has found that by monitoring their heart rates via biofeedback, patients in early recovery from substance use disorder (SUD) can reduce craving and negative affect, and also substance use. The heart rate variability feedback (HRVF) innovation focused on negative affect, positive affect, craving, and substance use for this second-generation RCT. For the study, “Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for Substance Use Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” researchers randomized 120 individuals to receive either HRBV plus treatment as usual, or treatment as usual only. The patients receiving HRBV had significant reductions in negative affect and craving, and a significantly lower proportion of alcohol use days. “Mechanistic findings suggest that HRVB practice may disrupt moment-level associations between craving and substance use, highlighting its potential as an adjunctive SUD treatment,” the researchers concluded. “Given its apparent utility, safety, and low cost, future phase 3 trials should further explore HRVB treatment for SUD.” The study, by David Eddie, Ph.D. and colleagues, was published online October 1 in <i>JAMA Psychiatry</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145228208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming Up…","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34677","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The 2025 <b>conference of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence</b> (AATOD) will be held <b>October 4-8</b> in Philadelphia. For more information, go to https://aatod2025.eventscribe.net/index.asp</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145228210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Report on drug fatalities suggests stimulant deaths are misclassified","authors":"Gary Enos","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34671","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An increasing incidence of stimulant use in communities already beset by the effects of the opioid crisis has led authorities to consider opioid- and stimulant-caused deaths as similar processes. A newly published research report suggests, however, that this perspective ignores key differences that could have major implications for the effectiveness of public health responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 38","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145228214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RIP to a Recovery legacy: Rich Buckman","authors":"Rob Kent Esq.","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34673","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A great New York and national recovery advocate, Rich Buckman, recently passed away. While it is a sad time, and many of us are mourning his loss, we must also reflect and think about what we do moving forward to honor him and his work.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145228212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Case You Haven't Heard…","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34678","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The current (as of October 1) government shutdown is only the second one in the same year. Remember last March? The House of Representatives passed a by final appropriations bill for the current fiscal year (which just ended) by a 217-213 vote. Then-President Biden signed a Continuing Resolution in December 2024 to keep the government going. Now, the standoff between Congressional Republicans, who voted to slash funding for Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies in H.R. 1, and Democrats, who staunchly oppose those cuts but are outnumbered, has led to the shutdown. Despite holding the power in the White House and Congress, Republicans were not able to keep the government open. President Trump threatened to fire federal employees en masse if the shutdown went forward. The ramifications for services for people who need them – people with substance use disorders – are drastic, either way. We hope things get up and running again soon – this time, with Medicaid and insurance subsidies included. Without them, treatment will be hurt, which means, Americans will be hurt.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145228216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medicaid disenrollment associated with decrease in buprenorphine treatment","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34670","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2020, the federal government approved continuous enrollment in Medicaid, so people would not have to navigate the system in the middle of COVID. However, that continuous enrollment requirement expired in 2023, and states then had to return to making sure people enrolled – a process known as “Medicaid unwinding.”</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 38","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145228213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marijuana ingestion in children younger than 5 up more than 1,000%","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34676","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the past 7 years, rates of marijuana ingestion – mostly edibles that look like candy – among children under 5 years old has risen more than 1,000%, according to research presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 2025 National Conference in Denver last week. The study, <i>Rising Trends in Pediatric Marijuana Ingestions: A Retrospective Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 on Emergency Department Presentations</i>, reviewed over 2,300 pediatric emergency department (ED) cases from 2016 through 2023. “Even young children in states where marijuana is not legal are being hospitalized after unintentionally ingesting cannabis products—often edibles that look like candy,” said study author Brittain Robinson, MD, FAAP, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The study was conducted at a pediatric ED in Tennessee, where cannabis remains illegal. In addition, the proportion of total ED visits attributable to marijuana ingestion tripled during this time.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145228209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AAP: How to help children with iatrogenic opioid withdrawal","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34663","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In August the American Academy of Pediatrics released a report on how pediatricians can tell if children are “addicted” to opioids. We use the scare quotes because the report is not about addiction, which involves the behavior of seeking out drugs for reward, but about dependence, which occurs both in addiction and in therapeutic use of addictive medications – in this case, opioids.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 37","pages":"4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145146215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}