May-June 2012
Resource Alert
Interventions and Assessments
- Illicit-Drug Brief Intervention Reduced Risk Score among Some Patients in a Randomized Trial
- Brief Intervention Reduces Drinking among Emergency Department Patients with Nondependent Unhealthy Use
- Alcohol and Other Drug Discussions in Primary Care: Not Rare, but Numerous Challenges
- Naloxone Distribution Programs for Opioid Overdose Prevention: Time to Scale Up?
- Naltrexone Implants Reduced Opioid Use in People with Co-occurring Heroin and Amphetamine Dependence
- Adding Telephone Support to Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Dependence Has Modest Effects
Health Outcomes
- Ongoing Use of Analgesics after Low-Risk Surgery
- Severity of Alcohol Problems Predicts Recurrence and Persistence of Alcohol Dependence
- Change in Heavy Drinking among Alcohol-Dependent Individuals
- Light Alcohol Consumption Prior to and Following Myocardial Infarction Is Associated with Lower Risk of Mortality
HIV and HCV
- Rates of HCV Reinfection Are Low among People with Injection Drug Use Who Receive HCV Treatment
- Availability of Viral Hepatitis Services in US Drug Treatment Programs
- Providing Directly Observed HCV Treatment at a Methadone Maintenance Program is Feasible and May Improve Treatment Outcomes
- People with Injection Drug Use Who Also Use Noninjecting Routes of Drug Administration Are Less Likely to Be HIV Positive