Project Impact, a hospital-based intervention program at Oregon Health& Science University is showing success at getting patients into addiction treatment.
When patients meet with an addiction medicine consult team member while they’re in the hospital, they are twice as likely to participate in treatment for substance use disorder after they’re discharged, a new study found.
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In the wake of dramatic increases, and demographic shifts, in the misuse of heroin and prescription opioids, drug addiction and accidental overdose have been increasingly framed as public health, not criminal justice, matters in the United States. In turn,… (Source: SafetyLit)
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With 1 in 10 Americans saying they misuse drugs, doctors should ask everyone about both illegal and prescription use, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said. (Source: NYT)
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TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2019 — Amid an ongoing epidemic of opioid addiction and misuse, a national panel on Tuesday advised that doctors routinely screen all adults for illicit drug use.
That includes the misuse of prescribed medications, noted the U.S…. (Source: Drugs.com – Daily MedNews)
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To examine the factors that influence mobile phone use while cycling, mobile phone addiction and perceptions of distraction were included in the theory of planned behavior (TPB) model to explore the relationship between the psychological factors of mobile … (Source: SafetyLit)
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