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Tobacco smoking rates are decreasing in people with major depression and substance use disorder
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Despite decline, smoking cessation efforts still critical for people with substance use or other psychiatric disorders
Drug use severity in adolescence affects substance use disorder risk in adulthood
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Screening for substance use disorder in teens may predict adult prescription drug use and misuse and prevent overdose
Law enforcement seizures of pills containing fentanyl increased dramatically between 2018-2021
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NIH-supported research highlights growing, dangerous trend, particularly for people new to drug use
NIH analysis of Reddit forum suggests experience of non-suicidal self-harm shares characteristics with addiction
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Better characterizing clinical features of self-injury is critical to provide support and effective treatments
Take-home antibiotic therapies may improve health outcomes, lower costs, for patients with drug use-associated infective endocarditis
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Often fatal, endocarditis remains a dangerous but largely unknown health threat for people who inject drugs
Suicides by drug overdose increased among young people, elderly people, and Black women, despite overall downward trend
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Study emphasizes the importance of screening for suicidality and providing treatment to people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders
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States that legalized marijuana now researching mental health risks of high-potency cannabis
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NBC News, By Laura Strickler and Steve Patterson
Drug overdose deaths among adolescents on the rise
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Fox News, By Joy Addison
Brain scans may reveal a lot about mental illness, but not until studies get bigger
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NPR, By John Hamilton
Tobacco use declined among people with major depression substance use disorder: NIH
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The Hill, By Joseph Choi
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