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In a 2026 interview study, people of color living with both PTSD and a substance use disorder described racism and sexism as part of how both conditions began.1 Women and men told different …
Read articleA 2026 umbrella review of 16 systematic reviews covering 371 trials found strong medication evidence for tobacco and opioid use disorders, modest benefits for alcohol use disorder, and no ap…
Read articleA 53-study resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) meta-analysis found substance use disorder (SUD) linked to altered connectivity across prefrontal, striatal, thalamic, c…
Read articleA 2026 randomized youth trial found that integrated exposure-based treatment reduced posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms more than supportive counseling, while substance-use changes were …
Read articleA 2026 medRxiv preprint interviewed 15 health-system stakeholders about CARES, a freestanding addiction-risk screening platform, and found a clear implementation split: people wanted better …
Read articleA Global Burden of Disease analysis estimated that U.S. age-standardized substance-use disorder disability-adjusted life-year rates rose 213.5% from 1990 to 2019, with opioid use disorders p…
Read articleA 2026 nationally-representative study by Johnson, Parker, and Wade in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry tested ACE-style screening in 7,608 Canadian adults and replicated what US, UK, and …
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