As the opioid crisis continues to devastate communities across the United States, claiming thousands of lives each year, the HEALing...

New research study finds that mindfulness training combined with methadone treatment produced improved outcomes.

A recent study unveiled a significant shift in American substance use consumption patterns, indicating that marijuana has outpaced...

JCOIN Study on Barriers and Facilitators within Opioid Intervention Courts that Impact Substance Use Disorder Treatment

A new study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy revealed a significant surge in seizures of illicit fentanyl-containing pi

A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry estimates that between 2011 and 2021, 321,566 children in the US lost a parent to a drug...

Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) help reduce or block the euphoric effects of illicit opioids, decrease opioid craving, and help i

Opioid Use Disorder Best Practices for Corrections highlights 10 essential strategies that jails and prisons can use to address the...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published new data that shows drug overdose deaths in the United States reached an...

Findings from JCOIN’s Coordination and Translation Center (CTC) The growing rates of substance use and overdose deaths have significantly...

What is Naloxone? Naloxone is a medication that reverses an opioid overdose if administered quickly. It works by blocking the effects of...

Findings from JCOIN’s Methodology and Advanced Analytics Resource Center (MAARC) A study recently published in Preventive Medicine...

Substance use disorder (SUD) is one of the most stigmatized health conditions. Individuals with SUDs are subject to harsh moral judgment...

According to a 2022 survey, over 2 million adolescents aged 12 to 17 in the United States have a substance use disorder (SUD), yet very...

Public health and law enforcement authorities advise increased vigilance related to the rising threat of injectable liquid fentanyl,...

Death by suicide has increased by more than 30 percent over the past two decades and is currently among the ten most common causes of...

New HHS Study Released Nearly 49 million people in the US ages 12 and older – more than 1 in 6 – reported a substance use disorder in 2022, according to survey data released by SAMHSA. The annual snapshot of behavioral health and substance use nationwide shows that 25% of Americans aged 12 years old or older used illicit substances in 2022 (70 million people), an increase of approximately 15% from 2021. Key findings on substance use include: Data shows that cannabis is th

Drug overdose deaths in the United States have reached alarming levels, with counterfeit pill usage contributing to the complexity of the...

The involvement of xylazine in illicitly manufactured fentanyl-related overdose deaths increased nearly three-fold over the 3.5-year...

Findings from JCOIN’s Coordination and Translation Center (CTC) and Methodology and Advanced Analytics Resource Center (MAARC) A new...