Nominations are open for the 2026 AMERSA Recognition Awards.
If someone in your network is shaping the future of addiction education or strengthening systems of care, we encourage you to nominate them.
🗓 Deadline: April 15, 2026
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Speaking of Psychology: Incentivizing recovery: Why contingency management works to treat addiction, with Lara Coughlin, PhD, and Michael McDonell, PhD
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Image of first page from the journal article mentioned and linked in post, “They Knew Nothing About Sex”: Cultural Silence, Gendered Expectations, and Barriers to PrEP for Young Black Women.
Check out the latest study from CDUHR investigator Keosha Bond - “They Knew Nothing About Sex”: Cultural Silence, Gendered Expectations, and Barriers to PrEP for Young Black Women
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Today is National Women’s and Girls HIV Awareness Day ❤️
PrEP is a powerful HIV prevention tool—and it’s for women too. It can greatly reduce the chance of getting HIV, helping women take control of their sexual health.
Spread the word. Make sure women and girls know their options. #NWGHAAD #CDC
Registration for the 2026 Annual Meeting is now open! Secure your spot by completing the online registration form today: www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/...
Career effects of preprints get mixed reviews from biomedical researchers
Junior researchers are more likely to embrace preprints; grant reviewers and hiring committees express doubts
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it's nice that someone did deep historical research on this particular instance, but it's true of all recreational drug prohibitions. data about what the drugs actually do rarely has any effect on these laws...
Comparative Effectiveness of Buprenorphine-Naloxone and Methadone for Opioid Overdose Among Youths
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Biostatistician | Diagnostic & Treatment Center
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Data Analyst - Emergency Medicine
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Postdoctoral Associate - Center for Healthy Aging Research (CHAR)
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Research Fellow
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America must not learn to live with 72,000 overdose deaths a year
"The question before us is not whether 72,000 deaths is better than 110,000. Of course it is. The question is whether 72,000 deaths is acceptable to us as a society."
www.statnews.com/2026/03/09/d...
Image of first page from the journal article mentioned and linked in post, Peer Navigator Intervention and Opioid-Related Adverse Events for Emergency Department Patients.
Check out the latest study from CDUHR investigators Kelly Doran, Ethan Cowan, Marya Gwadz, Donna Shelley, Chuck Cleland, and Jennifer McNeely - Peer Navigator Intervention and Opioid-Related Adverse Events for Emergency Department Patients
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Forest plot illustrating difference-in-differences analysis of prior authorization prohibitions and 180-day buprenorphine treatment retention. Variables include 'Never treated as controls' and 'Not yet treated as controls', with corresponding adjusted estimates and P values.
State laws prohibiting prior authorization for buprenorphine were not associated with significant changes in 180-day treatment retention among privately insured patients with #OpioidUseDisorder.
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News from CROI 2026: Multi-component app improves viral suppression in men who use crystal meth #CROI2026
Dark gray maze-like pattern fills black background. Large font at top left reads, "We miss our loved ones whose lives were stolen by overdose. They should be here." The words, "They should be here" are in purple, the rest are in white. Smaller white text below reads, "Black Balloon Day and every day, they are on our minds and in our hearts." Below this is a border of white stencil-like illustrations of various flowers at different heights. NHRC 30th anniversary logo in bottom right corner.
🧵Each of the people we've lost to #Overdose were so loved, & are loved still. We miss them. As we hold their memories close, we hold everyone they left behind in our hearts, too. Your grief matters and so do you. We hope our grieving overdose zine brings you some...
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🧵 #HealthCare is at its best when it's truly patient/person-centered. NHRC's Community & Capacity Building Manager Hiawatha Collins joined fellow panelists at @nychealthy.bsky.social's Healing ARC (Acknowledgement, Redress, Closure) Project symposium, where they
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AI agents are ‘aeroplanes for the mind’: five ways to ensure that scientists are responsible pilots
"The result could be human–machine co-evolution: the scientists who adapt fastest might be the ones who set the pace for tomorrow’s discovery."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and risk of substance use disorders among US veterans with type 2 diabetes: cohort study
"These observational data suggest a potential role for GLP-1 receptor agonists in both the prevention and the treatment of various SUDs"
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Phoenix's ban on harm reduction services in parks, though delayed, is already impacting participants, city harm reductionists tell Alexander Lekhtman.
“We’re not going to let ourselves be pushed out of our community just because of some nosy neighbors.”
Image of first page from the journal article mentioned and linked in post, Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Eligibility and Awareness Among Older Adults with Opioid use Disorder.
Check out the latest study from CDUHR investigator Benjamin Han - Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Eligibility and Awareness Among Older Adults with Opioid use Disorder
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Wonderful to see so many join us live for today's Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds on MOUD in pregnancy! Join us again, next week, when we'll be hearing from Yale Psychiatry's Ismene Petrakis, MD on PTSD in the setting of SUD treatment.
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What decades of research reveal about involuntary substance use treatment – and why evidence points elsewhere
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Map showing Washington Heights and East Harlem with highlighted areas: Washington Heights BID and 125th Street BID in red, 5-min walking buffer in orange, and 10-min walking buffer in blue, with OnPoint Washington Heights and OnPoint East Harlem.
Opening of overdose prevention centers in New York City was not associated with significant changes in neighborhood foot traffic or consumer spending, suggesting no observed economic harms near these #HarmReduction sites.
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Line graphs compare mental health treatment services by language, 2015-2024. Graph A: Facilities offering services in a specified language. Graph B: Counties with at least one facility. Both show higher percentages for non-English, non-Asian languages.
From 2015 to 2024, only 5.6% of US mental health facilities offered treatment services in an Asian language, with access concentrated in metropolitan areas and nearly absent in rural counties.
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New from CDUHR PPM Core Director Dustin Duncan, WAGs can be both productivity tools and equity interventions.
Rebalancing Academic Productivity
Writing accountability groups support all faculty and address unequal workloads.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
Image of first page from the journal article mentioned and linked in post, Travel Time to Opioid Treatment Programs in Connecticut—Still Waiting for Methadone.
Check out the latest from CDUHR investigators Noa Krawczyk and David Frank - Travel Time to Opioid Treatment Programs in Connecticut—Still Waiting for Methadone
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