Advocacy Causes Administration to Reverse Cuts As we reported yesterday, the Administration had arbitrarily cut nearly two billion dollars from mental health and substance use disorder treatment programs that had been approved on a bi-partisan bas...

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We study the bidirecional associations between cannabis use and affect among people who smoke cannabis near daily!

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Truth 1 OF 2:

I started doing dope two years ago cuz the world was burning.

I haven't regretted it.

I'm the person of people I know that is ok.

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Title Slide in white and blue -DHCS H&SS SOR IV Welcome Anne Lee, Outcomes Analysis, SOR IV Projects, UCLA-Gloria Miele, TTA Program Director, UCLA-ISAP Waheeda Sabah, Branch Chief, Federal Grants Branch Services Division, DHCS Malena Savell, Senior Policy Consultant, Aurerra Health Group Kathleen West, SOR IV Project Director, AHP

Ready to launch a new grant cycle for the CA Hub and Spoke program to increase access to care and decrease opioid overdose for people who use drugs. Looking forward to meeting the new subcontracted sites throughout California. #addictionsky #harmreductionsky #medsky

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Does anyine have any experience with ibogaine in opioid use disorder? #medsky #addictionsky

Preexisting risk-avoidance and enhanced alcohol relief are driven by imbalance of the striatal dopamine receptors in mice - Nature Communications The authors show that anxiety-like behavior in mice varies based on striatal D1/D2 receptor ratios. Elevated D1/D2 ratios enhanced alcohol relief, risk-avoidance, and persistent drinking, suggesting a...

Interesting study highlighting the complex relationship between striatal D1 and D2 receptors and and alcohol anxiolysis, providing some insight into possible mechanism for the common finding of comorbid anxiety disorders and AUD. 🐥 or 🥚? #medsky #addictionsky #AUD

Congress Misses Crucial Opportunity to Include Lifesaving Addiction Treatment Legislation in Year-End Package; ASAM Calls for Immediate Action in 2025

…And congress drops the ball again. #medsky #addictionsky #asam

Frontiers | Assessing Naltrexone Prescribing and Barriers to Initiation for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Multidisciplinary, Multisite Survey ObjectiveTo survey barriers in prescribing naltrexone for alcohol use disorder.MethodsA 12-question survey related to naltrexone prescribing patterns, percep...

Speaking of naltrexone… in 2022 my team investigated barriers to initiation of naltrexone for AUD. Knowledge and comfortability was identified as a major barrier in this small survey study comparing psych to IM/FM. 3 years later we have the same barriers. #medsky #addictionsky

Safety and Effectiveness of Naltrexone in the Management of Alcohol Use Disorder in Patients With Alcohol-associated Cirrhosis: First Clinical Observation From Indian Cohort Naltrexone is a promising drug to treat alcohol use disorder with limited evidence of safety in liver diseases. An observational study was performed to study the safety, effectiveness, and tolerability of Naltrexone in the management of alcohol use disorder in patients with alcohol-associated cirrhosis.

Naltrexone remains highly underutilized despite evidence supporting its safety and efficacy, even in cirrhosis. This study highlights improved liver parameters and cravings in EtOH cirrhosis. #medsky #addictionsky

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Opportunity to let @bpsofficial.bsky.social know that as a health related organisation they shouldn’t be accepting alcohol industry funding.

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Protracted neurobehavioral and microRNA deficits by acute nicotine dependence in mice - Communications Biology Early nicotine withdrawal causes a long-lasting impairment in passive avoidance, accompanied by aberrant changes in microRNA, neural activity, and dendritic spines in the dorsal striatum.

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Nice study exploring possible contributors to protracted nicotine withdrawal using a mouse model of nicotine dependence with evaluation of behavioral and molecular/miRNA changes. Adding support to the concept of neuroplastic effects and PAWS #medsky #addictionsky

CTP Releases Five-Year Strategic Plan CTP’s new strategic plan, which outlines the center’s programmatic and workforce initiatives for the next five years.

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FDA Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) releases five year strategic plan

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New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts | New Zealand | The Gua... Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives

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New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts

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Public debate over the social implications of maintaining addicts on "another poison" arose in the wake of the Harrison Act. Drug maintenance has been the most contested treatment modality, continually constructed not as treatment but as tantamount to condoning drug use or being "soft on addicts." In the late teens and early 1920s, clinics were briefly established to "maintain" opiate addicts. However, Webb et al. v. U.S. (1919) barred physicians from maintaining patients, forcing medical practice to change even faster than it otherwise would have (Courtwright 1982/2001). Changes in clinical practice came out of physicians' experience with iatrogenic addiction and culture that did not construct narcotics use as a "public problem" except when it occurred among the so-called dangerous classes. When opiates were one of the few effective weapons in the medical armamentarium, physicians were represented as progenitors of addiction, nefarious purveyors of dope who preyed on innocent, largely

it's always wild when you read histories about drugs & #addictionsky & you realize that argumentd against safe supply effectively haven't changed in 100 years

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