Drug Abuse Trends and Treatment Approaches for 2023 Substance use disorders involve a wide range of substances and patterns of abuse. However, the abuse of opioid prescription drugs and the rise in overdose deaths it is causing, largely due to the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, continues to be the biggest drug issue in America. Polysubstance […]

Medical cannabinoids: a pharmacology-based systematic review and meta-analysis for all relevant medical indications Medical cannabinoids differ in their pharmacology and may have different treatment effects. We aimed to conduct a pharmacology-based systematic review (SR) and meta-analyses of medical cannabinoids for efficacy, retention and adverse events.

Setting Youth in Crisis and Their Families Up for Success There is a mental health crisis among youth in the United States. Nearly half-44%-of US high school students reported in 2021 that they had experienced feelings of persistent hopeless or sadness in the past year. 1 How can we help youth when they are in

How to Effectively Prescribe Exercise onephoto/AdobeStock Over the past few decades, the level of sedentariness has increased and become a leading public health concern. Greater total sedentary time and longer sedentary bouts are associated with higher all-cause mortality risk. 1 This is of even greater concern during the coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) pandemic, as the work