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Harmonizing scans from four population cohorts, researchers traced how problematic substance use looks structurally different before 25, between 25 and 45, and after 45.
Penn State researchers found cannabis use among cancer patients was as common in rural Appalachia as in cities — and that 30 percent substituted it for opioid pain relief.
A Cochrane review of 93 studies finds free meals, gifts and sales visits still push prescribing toward more drugs, pricier drugs and less appropriate ones — with the opioid crisis as the clearest case.
A 57-study review finds permanent housing without preconditions keeps people housed better than treatment-first models — arriving the same month the federal government moves to defund it.
A new SEER-Medicare analysis finds the 2016 CDC opioid guideline reshaped prescribing for older adults without cancer while leaving cancer patients' prescriptions largely intact.
The National Council on Problem Gambling accepted $2 million from Kalshi, required board members to sign NDAs, then lost its executive director. New York proposed new rules days later.
A Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine trial screened 9,140 hospital records over two years to start 23 patients on buprenorphine. The brief report publishes the whole funnel, and the losses are the point.
A NIST analysis of 4,563 drug samples found the fentanyl supply now carries six or more additives where it once carried one or two — and that the mix shifts region to region, month to month.
A state audit found all 100 sampled opioid treatment services billed to Medicaid missed at least one requirement, and flagged $875,696 in possible methadone overpayments.