Treatment & Prevention

New research co-authored by USC Price visiting scholar Dr. Jevay Grooms in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment shows that older Americans are increasingly seeking treatment for substance use disorder (SUD), and there are alarming racial disparities when it comes to completing treatment programs.

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a cellphone app, called Second Chance, that uses sonar to monitor someone’s breathing rate and sense when an opioid overdose has occurred.

Physical therapy within three months of a musculoskeletal pain diagnosis reduced patients’ risk of long-term opioid use by about 10 percent, according to a study by researchers at Stanford and Duke.

University of Washington alumni are working with the Tulalip Tribes in the central Puget Sound region to help nonviolent offenders whose crimes stem from drug abuse and mental health conditions.

An innovative, cost-effective program at more than a dozen hospitals in Western New York provides medication-assisted treatment to opioid use disorder patients in emergency departments (EDs) and rapidly transitions them into long-term treatment at a community clinic.

Research is underway to identify infants at risk of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome shortly after birth.

Research is underway to identify infants at risk of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome shortly after birth.

The same immune system that fights infection and the flu could join the battle against opioid addiction, new research out of the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research indicates.

Yale researchers have identified racial disparities in the treatment of patients who are prescribed opioids for chronic pain.

When a clinician learned that one of their patients had suffered a fatal overdose, they reduced the amount of opioids they prescribed by almost 10 percent in the next three months, a new study found.