Updates Archives

New in SAj: Differences in the delivery of medications for opioid use disorder during hospitalization by racial categories: A retrospective cohort analysis

Jun 29, 2022 by AMERSA

This study assessed differences in the delivery of buprenorphine versus methadone during acute medical or surgical hospitalizations for veterans with opioid use disorder (OUD) by racial categories (Black Non-Hispanic or Latino vs. White Non-Hispanic or Latino).

Kelsey C. Priest, MD PhD MPH, Caroline A. King, PhD MPH, Honora Englander, MD, Travis I. Lovejoy, PhD MPH and Dennis McCarty, PhD found that differences in hospital-based MOUD delivery may be influenced by MOUD received prior to hospitalization within the racialized outpatient addiction treatment system.

This original research article was just published in SAj Volume 43, Issue 1 on June 7, 2022. Read it now!

New in SAj: Perceptions of prescription opioid use among rural farming and ranching communities: Preliminary implications for outreach and treatment

Jun 27, 2022 by AMERSA

The purpose of this study was to explore the prevalence and perceptions related to prescription opioids among rural producers and farmworkers. Authors, Kristine Ramsay-Seaner, PhD, Amber Letcher, PhD, Meagan Scott Hoffman, PhD, Emily Anderson, MA and Charlotte Heckmann, BS, found that outreach efforts that increase access to healthcare services and alternative pain management treatments for agricultural workers may mitigate the experience of chronic pain that can interfere with their overall quality of life.

You can find this article in SAj Volume 43, Issue 1 or you can read it here.

Abstracts Presented at the 41st Annual AMERSA Conference, Washington, DC, USA, November 2017

Nov 9, 2018 by AMERSA

The 41st annual national conference of the Association of Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) took place on November 2–4, 2017, in Washington, DC. The title of the conference was “AMERSA at 41: Reducing the Societal Impact of Alcohol and Drugs.” AMERSA, founded in 1976, is an organization whose mission is to improve health and well-being through interdisciplinary leadership in substance use education, research, clinical care, and policy. The Web-based supplement to this article includes the abstract awardees and the abstracts of all the work presented at the conference.

Adam J. Gordon (2018)

Abstracts presented at the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) 41st Annual Conference, Washington, DC, USA, November 2017
Substance Abuse 39:1
DOI: 10.1080/08897077.2018.1441944

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Our latest issue here.

Surgeon General’s Report On Addiction

Nov 30, 2016 by AMERSA

Last week the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy addressed the addiction crisis. The method was to release a Surgeon General’s Report and to campaign for its awareness. The Report website can be found at: https://addiction.surgeongeneral.gov/

The Report calls for resolve in the battle against addiction, and of note, treatment of addiction as a disease.

Read more about the Surgeon General’s conclusions here: https://addiction.surgeongeneral.gov/executive-summary/conclusion.

(Also, we recognize the Surgeon General has a pretty cool Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/u.s.surgeongeneral/ )

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Our newly released issue is now online —> October-December 2016.
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SAj Volume 37, Issue 4 Is Now Online!

Nov 28, 2016 by AMERSA

We’re delighted to announce that SAj’s Volume 37, Issue 4 is now available online!

We’re proud to include all of these articles, but to highlight a few:

As always, we welcome your comments via email and Twitter.

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Our newly released issue is now online —> October-December 2016.
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