Addiction Medicine
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Most effective meds for alcohol use disorder flagged
Acamprosate and naltrexone had the highest strength of evidence and were both associated with improvement in drinking outcomes.
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ACS expands lung cancer screening eligibility
Greater uptake and adherence needed to reduce deaths.
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Growing ‘tranq’ threat poses challenges for PCPs
“Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier.”
Case Reports
Supplements Are Not a Synonym for Safe: Suspected Liver Injury From Ashwagandha
Many patients take herbals as alternative supplements to boost energy and mood. There are increasing reports of...
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Growing public perception that cannabis is safer than tobacco
There was a significant shift over time toward an increasingly favorable perception of cannabis; more respondents reported cannabis was “somewhat...
News
Gene therapy offers new way to fight alcohol use disorder
Compared to primates that received a placebo intravenously, those that received the growth factor gene decreased their drinking by about 90%. They...
Program Profile
Implementing Smoking Cessation Telehealth Technologies Within the VHA: Lessons Learned
Health care systems need practical, scalable methods to reach patients and connect them to available, evidence-based...
Commentary
A new and completely different pain medicine
Patients assigned to the highest dose of VX-548 had a statistically significant lower cumulative amount of pain in the 48 hours after surgery.
Opinion
Prescribing lifestyle changes: When medicine isn’t enough
In prescribing lifestyle changes, it is important to offer most of these changes as suggestions, not as things we insist on.
News
App cuts alcohol intake in risky drinkers
“Our brief electronic intervention had clear impact on the drinking behavior of hazardous drinkers.”