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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 …

Up until recently, our knowledge about the effectiveness of screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) interventions has been fairly limited. In the first well-controlled multi-site randomized control trials conducted by the Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA) they evaluated the efficacy of SBIRT vs Health Education (HI) in reducing both alcohol and other drug use in mental health treatment settings. The research trial contained a total of 718 participants split be …

Over the years, kratom has been portrayed as a potential harm reduction agent because of it's properties containing the mu opioid receptor and many other compounds. Kratom is widely available and has been used as a home remedy for opioid use disorder. However the extent of kratom use in the United States has remained unclear until a recent study published by the Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA).In the study, containing over 59k respondents, 490 respondents indicated having used krat …