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In a recent article from Addiction Science and Clinical Practice, it explores the future utility of telemedicine and whether it will be the answer to rural expansion of medication treatment for opioid use disorder. With the immediate need for remote aid due to COVID-19, many health care systems rapidly incorporated digital technologies to handle the demand for remote care options.Rural communities are typically affected to a greater extent during an increased demand and/or biomedical crises base …

An unforeseen benefit of COVID-19 was that it created a greater awareness about the utility and clinical application for point-of-care testing (POCT). With greater dependence placed on rapid diagnostics during a time of limited medical resources, POCT proved to be instrumental in helping clinicians make quick informed medical decisions. However, are the limitations of POCT fully understood?In a recent article from the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, it explains that once the limit …

With the reinstitution of the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program and the research efforts put forth from The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, the purpose to this new case study was to demonstrate the feasibility of oral fluid screening collected on-site anonymously by jail staff. This would be considered a new surveillance method that has previously never been explored among individuals under arrest.Although ADAM was discontinued in 2014 due to budget limitations, …

Based off of the latest research from a publication supported by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), new insight is provided as to the proliferation of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) and the continuing threat to public health it imposes. The structural analogs for these novel psychoactive substances are so closely related to traditionally abused drugs which gives chemists an opportunity to synthesize and market these new substances, and in turn, makes it challenging for forensic la …

In light of the recent findings from a study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), we are able to gain a better understanding about the most commonly used screening methods for alcohol and drug use, and the best approach for implementing electronic health record-integrated screening.The analysis was conducted for a period just short of 3 years, and contained over 93k patients in 6 separate primary care clinics. With a total of 72% of the patients completing screening, the findin …