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We've written a great deal about how the pandemic is impacting the lives of Americans. Newly released data sharpens that focus… Average life expectancy dropped from age 79 in 2018 to 77 in 2020Alcohol consumption in 2020 rose 14% in the U.S., with women reporting a rise in alcohol use…
COVID-19 continues to dominate the news as it did throughout much of 2020. Hidden from sight is the raging epidemic of drug overdose deaths across America. 93,331 That’s the number of Americans who perished from a drug overdose in 2020. And that number represents a jump of 30% over the…
Researchers at the Department of Health Informatics at Rutgers University have just published a study in NeuroImage: Clinical detailing the results of their efforts to scan the brains of patients suffering from opioid use disorder and comparing those scans with those from healthy volunteers. The MRI scans looked at brain…
Very soon Aware Recovery Care will begin offering its unique in-home addiction treatment program to Rhode Island residents. Rhode Island is the nation's smallest state, but, like all states, it has its fair share of alcohol and drug abuse. In 2020, fatal drug overdoses rose by 25% from the year before…
There's been a debate for some years around the idea that limiting access to a drug or alcohol can reduce its use. Well, the COVID-19 pandemic turned out to be a great test of that thesis. The results? According to a study analyzing data taken from high school seniors and…
Specialists in addiction care know that alcoholics seeking sobriety may struggle with depression. Drinking is then often resumed as a form of self-medication for that depression. A study by researchers at the University of Illinois/Chicago's (UIC) Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics looked at the problem by identifying areas in…
Should men and women receive different treatments for alcohol abuse syndrome, often referred to as alcoholism? That's a question under debate among specialists in the field. But why would distinct treatment tracks be necessary? Researchers have known for many years that abstinent alcoholic men have less brain activity in areas…
A new global review on the effectiveness of drug therapies for opioid use disorder reveals some interesting new data. Perhaps the most thought-provoking of all is the data showing that drug therapies alone, while reducing overdoses and deaths, may serve a largely palliative function. According to one of the lead…
Researchers at the University of Washington are sounding an alarm about the excessive use of opioid drugs to treat the discomfort sometimes experienced by patients with post-covid syndrome. Think about that for a moment… Physicians in the U.S. are prescribing opioids for post-covid patients. And they are doing it at…
Americans drink and drive 121 million times a year. And it's a well-documented fact that drunk driving accounts for almost 30% of all traffic deaths annually. So, it's not surprising that apps with accompanying hardware (also known as breathalyzers) are being marketed that allow drivers to determine when they've consumed…
