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“At least someone thinks I’m doing well”: a real-world evaluation of the quit-smoking app StopCoach for lower socio-economic status smokers

Smoking is more prevalent and persistent among lower socio-economic status (SES) compared with higher-SES groups, and contributes greatly to SES-based health inequities. Few interventions exist that effectivel...

Authors: Eline Meijer, Janneke S. Korst, Kristiene G. Oosting, Eline Heemskerk, Sander Hermsen, Marc C. Willemsen, Bas van den Putte, Niels H. Chavannes and Jamie Brown

Effects of morbidity on smoking cessation: a national smoking cessation program

In smokers with chronic diseases, we examined the abstinence rates over 6 months and its affecting factors in the context of the Korea National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) smoking cessation program.

Authors: Young-Gyun Seo, Min-Woo Jo, Yu-Jin Paek and Jaekyung Choi

Receipt of medications for opioid use disorder among youth engaged in primary care: data from 6 health systems

Little is known about prevalence and treatment of OUD among youth engaged in primary care (PC). Medications are the recommended treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) for adolescents and young adults (youth). ...

Authors: Sarah M. Bagley, Laura Chavez, Jordan M. Braciszewski, Mary Akolsile, Denise M. Boudreau, Gwen Lapham, Cynthia I. Campbell, Gavin Bart, Bobbi Jo H. Yarborough, Jeffrey H. Samet, Andrew J. Saxon, Rebecca C. Rossom, Ingrid A. Binswanger, Mark T. Murphy, Joseph E. Glass and Katharine A. Bradley

Financial sustainability of payment models for office-based opioid treatment in outpatient clinics

Office-Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) is a delivery model which seeks to make medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), particularly buprenorphine, widely available in general medical clinics and offices. Des...

Authors: Dominic Hodgkin, Constance Horgan and Gavin Bart

Perceived family cohesion, social support, and quality of life in patients undergoing treatment for substance use disorders compared with patients with mental and physical disorders

Support from family and other social network elements can be important in helping patients to cope with practical and emotional consequences of diseases. The aim of the study was to examine perception of famil...

Authors: Bente Birkeland, Bente Weimand, Torleif Ruud, Darryl Maybery and John-Kåre Vederhus

Smoking cessation using preference-based tools: a mixed method pilot study of a novel intervention among smokers with low socioeconomic position

Compared to smokers with favorable socio-economic position (SEP), those with low SEP are less likely to have a successful smoking cessation attempt. Tailored approaches are therefore needed, and general practi...

Authors: Mégane Héron, Anne-Laurence Le Faou, Gladys Ibanez, Brigitte Métadieu, Maria Melchior and Fabienne El-Khoury Lesueur

Plausibility of patient-centred care in high-intensity methadone treatment: reflections of providers and patients

Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) often have complex health care needs. Methadone is one of the medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) used in the management of OUDs. Highly restrictive methadone tre...

Authors: Kerry Marshall, Geoffrey Maina and Jordan Sherstobitoff

Reimagining brief interventions for alcohol: towards a paradigm fit for the twenty first century?

There is no longer support for the idea that brief intervention programmes alone can contribute meaningfully to the improvement of population health relating to alcohol. As a result, calls for major innovation...

Authors: Jim McCambridge

Development of an unannounced standardized patient protocol to evaluate opioid use disorder treatment in pregnancy for American Indian and rural communities

Opioid use disorder (OUD) disproportionately impacts rural and American Indian communities and has quadrupled among pregnant individuals nationwide in the past two decades. Yet, limited data are available abou...

Authors: A. Taylor Kelley, Marcela C. Smid, Jacob D. Baylis, Elizabeth Charron, Amy E. Binns-Calvey, Shayla Archer, Saul J. Weiner, Lori Jo Begaye and Gerald Cochran

A Health Technician-delivered Brief Intervention linked to AUDIT for reduction of alcohol use in Chilean primary care: a randomized controlled trial

Because of the shortage of health professionals in Chilean primary care, Health Technicians (HT) are providing Brief Interventions (BI) for risky alcohol consumption. We compared the efficacy of two AUDIT-link...

Authors: Nicolas A. Barticevic, Fernando Poblete, Soledad M. Zuzulich, Victoria Rodriguez, Diego Quevedo, Brena F. Sena and Laura Bradshaw

What do clinicians want? Understanding frontline addiction treatment clinicians’ preferences and priorities to improve the design of measurement-based care technology

Measurement-based care (MBC) is the practice of routinely administering standardized measures to support clinical decision-making and monitor treatment progress. Despite evidence of its effectiveness, MBC is r...

Authors: Justin S. Tauscher, Eliza B. Cohn, Tascha R. Johnson, Kaylie D. Diteman, Richard K. Ries, David C. Atkins and Kevin A. Hallgren

A pilot study of the functionality and clinician acceptance of a clinical decision support tool to improve primary care of opioid use disorder

Most Americans with opioid use disorder (OUD) do not receive indicated medical care. A clinical decision support (CDS) tool for primary care providers (PCPs) could address this treatment gap. Our primary objec...

Authors: Rebecca C. Rossom, JoAnn M. Sperl-Hillen, Patrick J. O’Connor, A. Lauren Crain, Laurel Nightingale, Anne Pylkas, Kristen V. Huntley and Gavin Bart

Initiating buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder without prerequisite withdrawal: a systematic review

Opioid withdrawal symptoms prior to buprenorphine initiation may be intolerable and as a result, alternative strategies have emerged. We aim to systematically review the efficacy and safety of buprenorphine in...

Authors: K. K. Adams, M. Machnicz and D. M. Sobieraj

Should screening for risk of gambling-related harm be undertaken in health, care and support settings? A systematic review of the international evidence

Gambling-related harm is an increasing recognised problem internationally. Recent years have seen an explosion in opportunities to gamble, both in person and online. Health and other care settings have the pot...

Authors: Lindsay Blank, Susan Baxter, Helen Buckley Woods and Elizabeth Goyder

Facilitating rapid access to addiction treatment: a randomized controlled trial

Obtaining timely access to addiction medicine treatment for patients with substance use disorders is challenging and patients often have to navigate complex referral pathways. This randomized controlled trial ...

Authors: Anita Srivastava, Sarah Clarke, Kate Hardy and Meldon Kahan

Physician blame and vulnerability: novel predictors of physician willingness to work with patients who misuse opioids

Successfully combating the opioid crisis requires patients who misuse opioids to have access to affirming and effective health care. However, there is a shortage of physicians who are willing to work with thes...

Authors: Berkeley Franz, Lindsay Y. Dhanani and Daniel L. Brook

A medical peer-delivered intervention comprising brief motivational interviewing via instant-messaging interaction to reduce drug misuse among youth in Hong Kong: A protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Youth are frequently exposed to drugs, and most youth who misuse drugs are reluctant to seek help from services due to the worry of others being judgmental, lacking expertise, exposing their personal informati...

Authors: William Ho Cheung Li, Wei Xia, Laurie Long Kwan Ho, Ankie Tan Cheung, Queenie Kuai I. Leong and Tingna Liang

Patient outcomes and experience of a task-shared screening and brief intervention service for problem substance use in South African emergency centres: a mixed methods study

Screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) programmes have resulted in generally positive outcomes in healthcare settings, particularly for problem alcohol use, yet implementation is hampe...

Authors: Claire van der Westhuizen, Megan Malan, Tracey Naledi, Marinda Roelofse, Bronwyn Myers, Dan J. Stein, Sa’ad Lahri and Katherine Sorsdahl

Housing, opportunities, motivation and engagement (HOME) for homeless youth at-risk for opioid use disorder: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Homeless youth experience high rates of substance use disorders, exposures to violence, mental and physical health conditions, and mortality. They have been particularly affected by the opioid crisis. However,...

Authors: Natasha Slesnick, Laura Chavez, Alicia Bunger, Ruri Famelia, Jodi Ford, Xin Feng, Sarah Higgins, Eugene Holowacz, Soren Jaderlund, Ellison Luthy, Allen Mallory, Jared Martin, Laura Walsh, Tansel Yilmazer and Kelly Kelleher

Staff experiences of encountering and treating outpatients with substance use disorder in the psychiatric context: a qualitative study

High comorbidity exists between mental illness and substance use disorders (SUD). Patients in psychiatry living with problematic alcohol or drug consumption can experience a sense of exclusion, where seeking h...

Authors: Elisabeth Petersén, Anna Thurang and Anne H. Berman

The NIDA clinical trials network: evolving, expanding, and addressing the opioid epidemic

Over the past two decades, the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN), a program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), has expanded from the initial six Nodes to 16 Nodes, as a n...

Authors: Betty Tai, Ronald Dobbins, Quandra Blackeney, David Liu and Landhing Moran

Advancing a cascading train-the-trainer model of frontline HIV service providers in South Africa: protocol of an implementation trial

South Africa is marked by high rates of both HIV and alcohol use, and there is a detrimental synergistic relationship between these two epidemics. The Institute of Medicine recommends integrated care for alcoh...

Authors: Caroline C. Kuo, Goodman Sibeko, Morayo Akande, Shaheema Allie, Nurain Tisaker, Dan J. Stein and Sara J. Becker

The relationship between opioid agonist therapy satisfaction and fentanyl exposure in a Canadian setting

While patient-reported treatment dissatisfaction is considered an important factor in determining the success of substance use disorder treatment, the levels of dissatisfaction with opioid agonist therapies (O...

Authors: Lindsay Mackay, Thomas Kerr, Nadia Fairbairn, Cameron Grant, M.-J. Milloy and Kanna Hayashi

Correction to: Adapting inpatient addiction medicine consult services during the COVID‑19 pandemic

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Miriam T. H. Harris, Alyssa Peterkin, Paxton Bach, Honora Englander, Emily Lapidus, Theresa Rolley, Melissa B. Weimer and Zoe M. Weinstein

Is telemedicine the answer to rural expansion of medication treatment for opioid use disorder? Early experiences in the feasibility study phase of a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network Trial

Telemedicine (TM) enabled by digital health technologies to provide medical services has been considered a key solution to increasing health care access in rural communities. With the immediate need for remote...

Authors: Yih-Ing Hser, Allison J. Ober, Alex R. Dopp, Chunqing Lin, Katie P. Osterhage, Sarah E. Clingan, Larissa J. Mooney, Megan E. Curtis, Lisa A. Marsch, Bethany McLeman, Emily Hichborn, Laurie S. Lester, Laura-Mae Baldwin, Yanping Liu, Petra Jacobs and Andrew J. Saxon

Alcohol consumption and dependence is linked to the extent that people experience need satisfaction while drinking alcohol in two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Unhealthy alcohol use is a key concern for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (‘Indigenous Australian’) communities. Due to systematic disadvantage and inter-generational trauma, Indigenous Australians may ...

Authors: James H. Conigrave, Emma L. Bradshaw, Katherine M. Conigrave, Richard M. Ryan, Scott Wilson, Jimmy Perry, Michael F. Doyle and K. S. Kylie Lee

Patient and provider knowledge of and attitudes toward medical conditions and medication during pregnancy

Knowledge of medical conditions and their evidence-based medications varies among individuals. This range of knowledge may affect attitudes and influence medical decision-making of both patients and providers....

Authors: Caroline Shadowen, Rachel Wheeler and Mishka Terplan

Should the CIWA-Ar be the standard monitoring strategy for alcohol withdrawal syndrome in the intensive care unit?

The Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol-Revised (CIWA-Ar) is commonly used in hospitals to titrate medications for alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS), but may be difficult to apply to intensive...

Authors: Tessa L. Steel, Shewit P. Giovanni, Sarah C. Katsandres, Shawn M. Cohen, Kevin B. Stephenson, Ben Murray, Hillary Sobeck, Catherine L. Hough, Katharine A. Bradley and Emily C. Williams

Integrating patient perspectives in the development of a mobile health intervention to address chronic pain and heavy drinking in primary care: a qualitative study of patients in an urban, safety-net hospital setting

Chronic pain and heavy drinking are conditions that commonly co-occur among primary care patients. Despite the availability of behavioral interventions that target these conditions individually, engagement and...

Authors: Tibor P. Palfai, Maya P. L. Kratzer, Natalia E. Morone and Judith A. Bernstein

External validation of an opioid misuse machine learning classifier in hospitalized adult patients

Opioid misuse screening in hospitals is resource-intensive and rarely done. Many hospitalized patients are never offered opioid treatment. An automated approach leveraging routinely captured electronic health ...

Authors: Majid Afshar, Brihat Sharma, Sameer Bhalla, Hale M. Thompson, Dmitriy Dligach, Randy A. Boley, Ekta Kishen, Alan Simmons, Kathryn Perticone and Niranjan S. Karnik

Motivational network intervention to reduce substance use and increase supportive connections among formerly homeless emerging adults transitioning to housing: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial

Studies indicate high rates of substance use among youth experiencing homelessness (YEH). Further, the social networks of YEH, although multi-dimensional in composition, are largely comprised of other YEH, sub...

Authors: Joan S. Tucker, David P. Kennedy, Karen Chan Osilla and Daniela Golinelli

Integrating a brief alcohol intervention with tobacco addiction treatment in primary care: qualitative study of health care practitioner perceptions

Randomized trials of complex interventions are increasingly including qualitative components to further understand factors that contribute to their success. In this paper, we explore the experiences of health ...

Authors: Nadia Minian, Aliya Noormohamed, Mathangee Lingam, Laurie Zawertailo, Bernard Le Foll, Jürgen Rehm, Norman Giesbrecht, Andriy V. Samokhvalov, Dolly Baliunas and Peter Selby

Implementation facilitation to introduce and support emergency department-initiated buprenorphine for opioid use disorder in high need, low resource settings: protocol for multi-site implementation-feasibility study

For many reasons, the emergency department (ED) is a critical venue to initiate OUD interventions. The prevailing culture of the ED has been that substance use disorders are non-emergent conditions better addr...

Authors: Ryan P. McCormack, John Rotrosen, Phoebe Gauthier, Gail D’Onofrio, David A. Fiellin, Lisa A. Marsch, Patricia Novo, David Liu, E. Jennifer Edelman, Sarah Farkas, Abigail G. Matthews, Caroline Mulatya, Dagmar Salazar, Jeremy Wolff, Randolph Knight, William Goodman…

Prior National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) opioid use disorder trials as background and rationale for NIDA CTN-0100 “optimizing retention, duration and discontinuation strategies for opioid use disorder pharmacotherapy (RDD)”

Opioid use disorder continues to be a significant problem in the United States and worldwide. Three medications—methadone, buprenorphine, and extended-release injectable naltrexone,— are efficacious for treati...

Authors: Matisyahu Shulman, Roger Weiss, John Rotrosen, Patricia Novo, Elizabeth Costello and Edward V. Nunes

Correction to: Proceedings of the Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR) 2020: Virtual Conference: Part 2

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

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Adapting inpatient addiction medicine consult services during the COVID-19 pandemic

We describe addiction consult services (ACS) adaptations implemented during the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic across four different North American sites: St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, ...

Authors: Miriam T. H. Harris, Alyssa Peterkin, Paxton Bach, Honora Englander, Emily Lapidus, Theresa Rolley, Melissa B. Weimer and Zoe M. Weinstein

Creation of an algorithm for clinical decision support for treatment of opioid use disorder with buprenorphine in primary care

The treatment capacity for opioid use disorder (OUD) lags far behind the number of patients in need of treatment. Capacity is limited, in part, by the limited number of physicians who offer office based OUD tr...

Authors: Adriane M. dela Cruz, Robrina Walker, Ronny Pipes, Sidarth Wakhlu and Madhukar H. Trivedi

Comparing rapid micro-induction and standard induction of buprenorphine/naloxone for treatment of opioid use disorder: protocol for an open-label, parallel-group, superiority, randomized controlled trial

Buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone) is a current first-line treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). The standard induction method of buprenorphine/naloxone requires patients to be abstinent from opioids and the...

Authors: James S. H. Wong, Mohammadali Nikoo, Jean N. Westenberg, Janet G. Suen, Jennifer Y. C. Wong, Reinhard M. Krausz, Christian G. Schütz, Marc Vogel, Jesse A. Sidhu, Jessica Moe, Shane Arishenkoff, Donald Griesdale, Nickie Mathew and Pouya Azar

Electronic cigarettes’ withdrawal severity symptoms among users during intermittent fasting: a cross-sectional study

Recently, electronic cigarette (e-cig) usage has increased significantly, making it a potentially effective smoking cessation tool. In Muslim countries, most people who use e-cigarettes fast the month of Ramad...

Authors: Muna M. Barakat, Raja’a A. Al-Qudah, Ibrahim Alfayoumi, Hala Jehad Al-Obaidi, Feras Jassim Jirjees and Iman Basheti

PRimary Care Opioid Use Disorders treatment (PROUD) trial protocol: a pragmatic, cluster-randomized implementation trial in primary care for opioid use disorder treatment

Most people with opioid use disorder (OUD) never receive treatment. Medication treatment of OUD in primary care is recommended as an approach to increase access to care. The PRimary Care Opioid Use Disorders t...

Authors: Cynthia I. Campbell, Andrew J. Saxon, Denise M. Boudreau, Paige D. Wartko, Jennifer F. Bobb, Amy K. Lee, Abigail G. Matthews, Jennifer McCormack, David S. Liu, Megan Addis, Andrea Altschuler, Jeffrey H. Samet, Colleen T. LaBelle, Julia Arnsten, Ryan M. Caldeiro, Douglas T. Borst…

“It’s way more than just writing a prescription”: A qualitative study of preferences for integrated versus non-integrated treatment models among individuals with opioid use disorder

Increasingly, treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) is offered in integrated treatment models addressing both substance use and other health conditions within the same system. This often includes offering me...

Authors: Elizabeth C. Saunders, Sarah K. Moore, Olivia Walsh, Stephen A. Metcalf, Alan J. Budney, Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, Emily Scherer and Lisa A. Marsch

Information technology and addiction science: promises and challenges

Information technology can be used to advance addiction science and clinical practice.

Authors: Nicolas Bertholet and John A. Cunningham

The impact of project ECHO on physician preparedness to treat opioid use disorder: a systematic review

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a medical condition that has evolved into a serious and deadly epidemic in the United States. Both medical and psychological interventions are called for to end this growing epidem...

Authors: Hunter M. Puckett, Jenny S. Bossaller and Lincoln R. Sheets

Multiple clinical risks for cannabis users during the COVID-19 pandemic

The pandemic caused by Sars-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has been a great concern for public and mental health systems worldwide. The identification of risk groups is essential for the establishment of preventive and ther...

Authors: Ellen Mello Borgonhi, Vanessa Loss Volpatto, Felipe Ornell, Francisco Diego Rabelo-da-Ponte and Felix Henrique Paim Kessler

Conceptualizing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with opioid use disorder: an application of the social ecological model

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unparalleled societal disruption with wide ranging effects on individual liberties, the economy, and physical and mental health. While no social strata or population has b...

Authors: Ethan Cowan, Maria R. Khan, Siri Shastry and E. Jennifer Edelman

A novel brief treatment for methamphetamine use disorders in South Africa: a randomised feasibility trial

Effective brief treatments for methamphetamine use disorders (MAUD) are urgently needed to complement longer more intensive treatments in low and middle income countries, including South Africa. To address thi...

Authors: K. Sorsdahl, D. J. Stein, S. Pasche, Y. Jacobs, R. Kader, B. Odlaug, S. Richter, B. Myers and J. E. Grant

A Delphi yarn: applying Indigenous knowledges to enhance the cultural utility of SMART Recovery Australia

Mutual support groups are a popular treatment for substance use and other addictive behaviours. However, little is known about the cultural utility of these programmes for Indigenous peoples.

Authors: Elizabeth Dale, Katherine M. Conigrave, Peter J. Kelly, Rowena Ivers, Kathleen Clapham and K. S. Kylie Lee

Merging statewide data in a public/university collaboration to address opioid use disorder and overdose

Describe methods to compile a unified database from disparate state agency datasets linking person-level data on controlled substance prescribing, overdose, and treatment for opioid use disorder in Connecticut.

Authors: William C. Becker, Robert Heimer, Catherine M. Dormitzer, Molly Doernberg, Gail D’Onofrio, Lauretta E. Grau, Kathryn Hawk, Hsiu-Ju Lin, Alex M. Secora and David A. Fiellin

Proceedings of the Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR) 2020: Virtual Conference: Part 2

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Proceedings of the Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR) 2020 Virtual Conference: Part 1

Authors: Sara J. Becker