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New From SAj: The impact of sexual victimization on substance use disorder treatment completion: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Jul 15, 2020 by AMERSA

The impact of sexual victimization on substance use disorder treatment completion: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Anna Parisi, MSW, Brooke Jordan, MSW, Todd Jensen, MSW & Matthew O. Howard, MSW

NEW! Published May 20, 2020

The objective of this research was to evaluate the relationship between lifetime sexual victimization and SUD treatment completion.
Findings from this systematic review and meta-analysis did not support the impact of sexual victimization on treatment completion. Methodological limitations of the extant literature limit cross-study comparisons. Future studies should document program-related factors to improve the ability to understand relationships affecting treatment completion.

New From SAj: Prescription-related risk factors for opioid-related overdoses in the era of fentanyl contamination of illicit drug supply: A retrospective case-control study

Jul 13, 2020 by AMERSA

Kate Smolina, PhD, Alexis Crabtree, MD, MPH, PhD, Mei Chong, MSc, Mina Park, PhD, Christopher Mill, MPH, Bin Zhao, MSc & Christian G. Schütz, MD, PhD, MPH, FRCPC

NEW! Published May 22, 2020

This research seeks to quantify the association between clinical, physiological, and contextual factors and opioid-related overdose, specifically focusing on current and past use of select prescription medications.

New From SAj: Alcohol and educational inequalities: Hazardous drinking prevalence and all-cause mortality by hazardous drinking group in people aged 50 and older in Europe

Jul 10, 2020 by AMERSA

Alcohol and educational inequalities: Hazardous drinking prevalence and all-cause mortality by hazardous drinking group in people aged 50 and older in Europe

Sergi Trias-Llimós, PhD, Marina Bosque-Prous, PhD, Nuria Obradors-Rial, PhD, Ester Teixidó-Compañó, MSc, Maria José Belza, PhD, Fanny Janssen, PhD & Albert Espelt, PhD

NEW! Published June 16, 2020

This study examined educational inequalities in hazardous drinking prevalence among individuals aged 50 or more in 14 European countries, and explored educational inequalities in mortality in hazardous drinkers in European regions.

New From SAj: Feasibility of auricular acupressure as an adjunct treatment for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS)

Jul 9, 2020 by AMERSA

Feasibility of auricular acupressure as an adjunct treatment for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS)

Heather J. Jackson, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC; Cristina Lopez, PhD; Sarah Miller, RN, PhD; & Barbara Englehardt, MD

NEW! Published July 7, 2020

This feasibility study implemented an acupressure protocol as informed by the Near-Term Infant (NTI) conceptual framework for the treatment of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS).

SAj Blast From The Past: A Patient Navigation Intervention for Drug-Involved Former Prison Inmates

Jul 6, 2020 by AMERSA

The SAj Blast From The Past will take past SAj articles and highlight them here on our blog! It could be an article from 6 months ago or 20 years ago! Check out how addiction health services research has changed over the years.

A Patient Navigation Intervention for Drug-Involved Former Prison Inmates

Ingrid A. Binswanger, MD, MPH, MS, Elizabeth Whitley, Paul-Ryan Haffey, Shane R. Mueller, MSW & Sung-Joon Min, PhD

Vol. 36 Iss. 1 (2015)

Former prison inmates experience high rates of hospitalizations and death during the transition from prison to the community, particularly from drug-related causes and early after release. The authors designed a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of patient navigation to reduce barriers to health care and hospitalizations for former prison inmates.