Black individuals experience a disproportionate burden of substance use-related disabilities and premature death, and Blacks with more severe substance use problems are less likely than Whites to receive treatment.

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The Prescription Opioid Addiction Treatment Study (POATS), carried out as part of the NIDA Clinical Trials…

• Summary: Emergency departments (EDs) are a key point of access to medical care for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). This paper describes a quality improvement framework for EDs that could help standardize care, reduce care inequities, and improve outcomes for patients with OUD.…

• People with substance use disorders often exhibit signs of compromised cognitive function, such as issues with attention, reasoning, or spatial processing, compared to the general population.
• Additionally, cognitive impairment is associated with poorer outcomes in treatment,…

• Although cigarette smoking among adults in the United States declined to a rate of 15.5% by 2016, there are vulnerable populations for whom smoking rates remain high. Individuals in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment smoke at rates as high as 84% and die from tobacco-related illnesses…

• When looking at profiles of men and women with opioid use disorder (OUD), a number of gender differences become evident.
• Women report more issues with drug, medical, psychological, family/social, and employment problems, while men report more problems with legal and alcohol-…

• Rising rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) and overdose deaths have become a public health crisis, with deaths from prescription opioid and heroin use increasing four-fold since 1999 and reaching a record high of more than 42,000 in 2016.
• The field of substance use disorder…

• Cannabis use prevalence in the United States more than doubled, from 4.1% to 9.5%, between 2001/2 and 2012-13. In addition, approximately 12% of individuals who have used cannabis in the past year meet criteria for cannabis use disorder.
• However, measures of changes in cannabis…

• The prevalence of cannabis use and cannabis use disorders (CUD) has increased significantly in the last decade, due in part to increasingly legalized access.
• Research has shown that individuals who use cannabis have increased risk of behavioral health conditions, including…

• Opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment outcome is a complex trait that is dependent on both genetic and environmental factors.
• If genetic variants that predicted dropout or relapse from OUD treatment could be identified, patients could be better supported through that treatment with…