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Commentary
Substance use remains a leading cause of preventable death globally. A model of intervention known as screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) was developed decades ago to facilitate ti...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:18
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research
Criteria for alcohol use disorders (AUD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5) were intended to result in a similar prevalence of AUD as DSM-IV. We evaluated the pre...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:17
Published on: 18 July 2017
Research
Interventions are needed to improve viral suppression rates among persons with HIV and substance use. A 3-arm randomized multi-site study (Metsch et al. in JAMA 316:156–70, 2016) was conducted to evaluate the ef...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:16
Published on: 27 June 2017
Research
People who smoke crack cocaine and people who inject drugs are at-risk for criminal justice involvement as well as HIV and HCV infection. Compared to criminal justice involvement, substance use treatment (SUT)...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:13
Published on: 14 June 2017
Research
Most patients with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) never receive alcohol treatment, and experts have recommended management of AUDs in primary care. The Choosing Healthier Drinking Options In primary CarE (CHOICE...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:15
Published on: 17 May 2017
Meeting report
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:14
Published on: 10 May 2017
Research
Women in South Africa who use alcohol and other drugs face multiple barriers to HIV care. These barriers make it difficult for women to progress through each step in the HIV treatment cascade from diagnosis to...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:12
Published on: 26 April 2017
Research
Persons living with HIV and substance use disorders face barriers to sustained engagement in medical care, leading to suboptimal antiretroviral treatment outcomes. Innovative mobile technology tools such as cu...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:11
Published on: 26 April 2017
Research
In the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), residential treatment programs are an important part of the continuum of care for patients with a substance use disorder (SUD). However, a limited number of pro...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:10
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research
Opioid use disorder (OUD) affects approximately 21.9 million people worldwide. This study aims to determine the association between age of onset of opioid use and comorbid disorders, both physical and psychiat...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:9
Published on: 28 March 2017
Study protocol
People living with HIV (PLWH) with a substance use disorder (SUD) tend to receive inadequate medical care in part because of a siloed healthcare system in which HIV and substance use services are delivered sep...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:8
Published on: 14 March 2017
Research
Buprenorphine maintenance for opioid dependence remains of limited availability among underserved populations, despite increases in US opioid misuse and overdose deaths. Low threshold primary care treatment mo...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:7
Published on: 28 February 2017
Research
Opioid dependence is a chronic condition with substantial health, economic and social costs. The study objective was to conduct a systematic review of published health-economic models of opioid agonist therapy...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:6
Published on: 24 February 2017
Research
The objective of this study was to review changes in the prevalence of opioid use disorder in pregnancy, and to describe the prenatal care and neonatal outcomes following the implementation of buprenorphine tr...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:5
Published on: 13 January 2017
Review
The opioid use and overdose crisis is persistent and dynamic. Opioid overdoses were initially driven in the 1990s and 2000s by the increasing availability and misuse of prescription opioids. More recently, opi...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:4
Published on: 7 January 2017
Research
Khat, a plant native to East Africa, has psychoactive constituents similar to amphetamine. Chronic khat use can lead to psychological dependence with multiple physical and mental health harms, complicating cli...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:3
Published on: 6 January 2017
Research
The abbreviated Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test for Consumption (AUDIT-C) is rapidly becoming the alcohol screening tool of choice for busy practitioners in clinical settings and by researchers keen t...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:2
Published on: 4 January 2017
Study protocol
Adolescents in residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment have poor outcomes post-discharge, with follow-up studies suggesting that most adolescents relapse within 90 days. Parenting practices directly...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017 12:1
Published on: 3 January 2017
Review
Alcohol misuse among individuals receiving agonist treatment for an opioid use disorder is common and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. At present, though substantial research highlights ...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2016 11:17
Published on: 8 December 2016
Research
Emerging adulthood is an age of particularly risky behavior. Substance misuse during this phase of life can be the beginning of longer-term problems, making intervention programs particularly important. This ...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2016 11:16
Published on: 9 November 2016
Meeting abstracts
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2016 11(Suppl 1):13
Published on: 19 September 2016
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1
Research
Active consideration of effective medications to treat alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a consensus standard of care, yet knowledge and use of these medications are very low across diverse settings. This study ev...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2016 11:15
Published on: 15 September 2016
Research
Social networks play positive and negative roles in the lives of homeless people influencing their alcohol and/or other drug (AOD) and HIV risk behaviors.
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2016 11:14
Published on: 7 September 2016
Research
Alcohol use can have a significant negative impact on young adults in mental health treatment. This cross-sectional study examined prevalence and factors associated with hazardous drinking among young adults s...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2016 11:12
Published on: 9 August 2016
Research
In 2009, a university adopted a policy of emergency department transport of students appearing intoxicated on campus. The objective was to describe the change in ED referrals after policy initiation and descr...
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2016 11:11
Published on: 8 June 2016
