Since DSM-IV was published in 1994, its approach to substance use disorders has come
under scrutiny. Strengths were identified (notably, reliability and validity of dependence), but …

Abstract Background The United States is experiencing an opioid overdose epidemic.
Treatment use data from diverse racial/ethnic groups with opioid use disorder (OUD) are …

Background Although psychoactive substances vary in many ways, they have important
commonalties, particularly in their ability to lead to an addiction syndrome. The field lacks an …

Background:“Chemical coping” is a commonly used term in the pain and palliative care
literature, but is heterogeneously defined. We conducted a Delphi survey among palliative …

Background Current data suggest that opioid misuse or opioid use disorder (OUD) may be
over represented among tobacco users. However, this association remains understudied in …

A locus on chromosome 15q25. 1 previously implicated in nicotine, alcohol, and cocaine
dependence, smoking, and lung cancer encodes subunits of the nicotinic acetylcholine …

Objective To identify when youth are most likely to start using prescription pain relievers to
get high or for other unapproved indications outside the boundaries of what a prescribing …

Factor mixture modeling (FMM) incorporates both continuous latent variables and
categorical latent variables in a single analytic model clustering items and observations …

Background Therapeutic community (TC) clients frequently display a pattern of multiple
substance use disorders (SUDs) which is associated with poorer treatment outcomes. This …

Background Opioid abuse is associated with substantial morbidity and often results in
hospitalization. Despite this, patient-level factors associated with opioid-related …