Background: The purpose of this review was to summarize the literature regarding the
effects of opioids and illicit drugs on the auditory and vestibular systems. Methods: Data …

Objective: Participation in extracurricular activities has been largely shown to be protective
against adolescent substance use. However, research has yet to examine whether …

Abstract In the United States, opioid-related deaths involving polydrug use are now more
prevalent than those involving only opioids. What often goes unnoticed is that deaths …

Purpose: Infants prenatally exposed to opioids exhibit withdrawal symptomology that
introduce physiological noise and can impact newborn hearing screening results. This study …

Purpose: The aims of this study were, in a cohort of children with neonatal opioid withdrawal
syndrome (NOWS),(a) to report 1-year neurodevelopmental outcomes and specifically …

Purpose: This research was conducted to describe the clinical characteristics of children
with a history of opioid exposure as perceived by the speech-language pathologists (SLPs) …

Background: A wide range of opioid misuse motives have been documented in the literature,
including to relieve physical pain, feel good/get high, relax, manage feelings/emotions …

Abstract Aims Opioid misuse among African-Americans (AAs) has increased over the last
two decades. However, there has been surprisingly little investigation into when/how AAs …

There is a lack of research that specifies the long-term effects on a child's language
development when prenatally exposed to opioids (Fill et al., 2018; Rutherford et al., 2022) …

Dr. Khary Rigg, left, is a health services researcher and associate professor in the
department of mental health law and policy at the University of South Florida. Dr. Malika …