[HTML][HTML] The rise of illicit fentanyls, stimulants and the fourth wave of the opioid overdose crisis

D Ciccarone - Current opinion in psychiatry, 2021 - journals.lww.com
A 'fourth wave'of high mortality involving methamphetamine and cocaine use has been
gathering force in the USA. Availability and use of illicit fentanyls are still the major drivers of …

Pharmacological treatment of methamphetamine/amphetamine dependence: a systematic review

KJ Siefried, LS Acheson, N Lintzeris, N Ezard - CNS drugs, 2020 - Springer
Background Stimulant drugs are second only to cannabis as the most widely used class of
illicit drug globally, accounting for 68 million past-year consumers. Dependence on …

The future of psychopharmacology: a critical appraisal of ongoing phase 2/3 trials, and of some current trends aiming to de‐risk trial programmes of novel agents

CU Correll, M Solmi, S Cortese, M Fava… - World …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite considerable progress in pharmacotherapy over the past seven decades, many
mental disorders remain insufficiently treated. This situation is in part due to the limited …

The fourth wave of the US opioid epidemic and its implications for the rural US: a federal perspective

RA Jenkins - Preventive medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
The current opioid epidemic in the United States has been characterized as having three
waves: prescription opioid use, followed by heroin use, and then use of synthetic opioids …

The persistent and evolving HIV epidemic in American men who have sex with men

KH Mayer, LR Nelson, L Hightow-Weidman… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Men who have sex with men (MSM) in the USA were the first population to be identified with
AIDS and continue to be at very high risk of HIV acquisition. We did a systematic literature …

Association of pharmacological treatments and hospitalization and death in individuals with amphetamine use disorders in a Swedish nationwide cohort of 13 965 …

M Hartikainen, H Taipale, A Tanskanen… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There are no medications approved by authorities for the treatment of
amphetamine or methamphetamine dependence, and studies investigating the …

HIV, chemsex, and the need for harm-reduction interventions to support gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men

C Strong, P Huang, CW Li, SWW Ku, HJ Wu… - The lancet HIV, 2022 - thelancet.com
Numerous studies have identified an association between the use of drugs in sexual
contexts (chemsex) and HIV among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men …

Integrating harm reduction into outpatient opioid use disorder treatment settings: harm reduction in outpatient addiction treatment

JL Taylor, S Johnson, R Cruz, JR Gray, D Schiff… - Journal of General …, 2021 - Springer
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is increasingly recognized as a chronic, relapsing brain disease
whose treatment should be integrated into primary care settings alongside other chronic …

Increasing heroin‐methamphetamine (goofball) use and related morbidity among Seattle area people who inject drugs

SN Glick, KS Klein, J Tinsley… - The American Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Objectives Methamphetamine use is increasing in the United States,
potentially including the simultaneous injection of methamphetamine with heroin (goofball) …

The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry guidelines on the assessment and pharmacological treatment of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder

D Turner, P Briken, J Grubbs, L Malandain… - Dialogues in Clinical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives The current guidelines aim to evaluate the role of pharmacological agents in the
treatment of patients with compulsive sexual behaviour disorder (CSBD). They are intended …