{"title":"Mass trauma, PCPs, and benzodiazepines: Study of Oct. 7 attack","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34628","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Following the October 7, 2023 attack on Israelis, primary care physicians greatly increased their prescribing of benzodiazepines, recent research has found. Crisis management should not be done by medicating, the researchers concluded. In the aftermath of a crisis, benzodiazepines may alleviate some anxiety and panic, but clinical guidelines do not align with this as a policy. There is a need to support appropriate prescribing during mass trauma events, the researchers concluded.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 32","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144858605","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":"Hospitals adjust MOUD practices based on trends in drug supply","authors":"Gary Enos","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34623","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Observers often view professional practice as lagging behind the latest evidence emerging from research, but in the case of hospital-based programs initiating medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), the reverse might be true. A clear majority of directors of hospital addiction consult services said in a newly published study that changes in the drug supply on the street have compelled them to alter their practices for initiating methadone and/or buprenorphine in the hospital setting. This is occurring absent any updated clinical guidelines for these practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 32","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144858603","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.34629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34629","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <b>Cape Cod Symposium</b> on Addictive Disorders will be held <b>September 4-7</b>. For more information, go to https://www.hmpglobalevents.com/symposia-addictive-disorders</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 32","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144858606","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":"Smoking cessation is connected to recovery from other SUDs: NIDA cohort study","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34622","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The message to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers is that they should not allow their patients to smoke. This message has been conveyed by public health authorities for years (see <i>ADAW</i> https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adaw.20187), but a research study now supports linking smoking cessation with SUD care. It's not a matter of banning smoking – it's a matter of encouraging smoking cessation.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 32","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144858602","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":"Empathy is essential to advocacy!","authors":"Rob Kent Esq.","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34626","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I was talking to a dear friend recently who has become my brother from another mother! We met on our advocacy journeys and have worked together to make things better for folks seeking help and support with their addiction and their recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 32","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144858541","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.34630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34630","url":null,"abstract":"<p>New York State's marijuana dispensary law provided for those most harmed by the drug war to be the first to get licenses to operate dispensaries. This summer it was revealed that the state had made a mistake, not in who it gave licenses to, but in the placement of those dispensaries. Instead of being 500 feet from a school's front door, marijuana dispensaries had to be 500 feet from a school's property line. This discovery prompted Gov. Kathy Hochul to order the shutdown of 152 marijuana dispensaries. The outcry was immediate, especially from the advocates such as the NAACP who had worked to get Black people – those most victimized by anti-marijuana crackdowns – preferential rights to operate the dispensaries. As a result, the state is likely to pull back and not require the closures.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 32","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144858538","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":"Cannabis withdrawal may exacerbate mental illness","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34627","url":null,"abstract":"<p>People with severe mental illness who are admitted to a psychiatric hospital may develop cannabis withdrawal syndrome, which exacerbates their mental problems, researchers have found. For the study, researchers looked at 4,691 admissions to a psychiatric intensive care unit. They found that.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 32","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144858604","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":"CDC publishes new webpage on preventing overdose","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34609","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a new webpage outlining priorities for overdose prevention. Specifically, the webpage focuses on initiatives funded by the OD2A program in states across the county that focus on the CDC's five priorities for overdose prevention: 1) monitor, analyze, and communicate trends, 2) build state, tribal, local, and territorial capacity, 3) support providers, health systems, payors, and employers, 4) partner with public safety and community organizations, and 5) raise public awareness and reduce stigma. For more information, go to here.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144767761","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":"The truth about NYS's opioid settlement fund","authors":"Rob Kent","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34608","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I have been listening for years to statements from NYS state government officials touting that fact that $400 million of the $500 million received from the settlement of the lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors has been “made available” to the stakeholders trying to save lives. When, I and others, have asked how much of the money that has been “made available” has been received and spent by the addiction care system, we have received no response!</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144767533","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.34613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34613","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It's that time again. It seems that every single survey of Americans about access to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment finds the treatment gap gets bigger. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health for 2024, released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration last week, 95.6% of adults who needed treatment for a SUD in 2024 didn't get it. This was up from 94.7% in 2023. Typically, reasons given are 1) that the person didn't think they needed treatment, 2) that there was no way to pay for treatment, and 3) that the person didn't want treatment. Meanwhile, vaping – both nicotine and marijuana – continues to rise.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144767764","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}
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