This Week in Addiction Medicine from ASAM

By American Society of Addiction Medicine

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This Week in Addiction Medicine is an audio summary of the recent top stories and research articles from the field of addiction medicine. Intended to serve as an accompaniment to the ASAM Weekly newsletter or as a stand-alone resource, This Week covers recent publications in addiction medicine research.


Episode Date
Lead: Expanding Access to Buprenorphine and Methadone: Global Perspectives and Policy Recommendations
Dec 09, 2025
Lead: Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation: Examining a Facilitated Extinction Approach and Dosing Schedule
Dec 02, 2025
Lead: Fatal Opioid Overdoses by Historical and Contemporary Neighborhood-Level Structural Racism
Nov 25, 2025
Lead: State Laws Banning Prior Authorization For Medications For Opioid Use Disorder Increased Substantially, 2015–23
Nov 18, 2025
Lead: Rapid vs Standard Induction to Injectable Extended-Release Buprenorphine
Nov 11, 2025
Lead: States With Substantial Increases In Buprenorphine Uptake Did So With Increased Medicaid Prescribing, 2018–24
Nov 04, 2025
Lead: Ultra-processed food addiction in a nationally representative sample of older adults in the USA
Oct 28, 2025
Lead: Alcohol Consumption Per Capita and Suicide: A Meta-Analysis
Oct 21, 2025
Lead: Measures of General Intelligence and Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder
Oct 14, 2025
Lead: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Playbook
Oct 11, 2025
Lead: Cannabis Use During Pregnancy and Lactation
Sep 30, 2025
Lead: Contingency Management for Stimulant Use Disorder and Association With Mortality: A Cohort Study
Sep 23, 2025
Lead: Machine learning– and multilayer molecular network–assisted screening hunts fentanyl compound
Sep 16, 2025
Lead: Evaluation of a Novel Patient-Centered Methadone Restart Protocol
Sep 09, 2025
Lead: Recommendations for Addressing In-Hospital Substance Use From a National Delphi Consensus Process
Sep 02, 2025
Lead: Injectable-Only Overlapping Buprenorphine Starting Protocol in a Low-Threshold Setting
Aug 26, 2025
Lead: Association between housing status and mental health and substance use severity among individuals with opioid use disorder and co-occurring depression and/or PTSD
Aug 19, 2025
Lead: Oral methadone versus sublingual buprenorphine for the treatment of acute opioid withdrawal: A triple-blind, double-dummy, randomized control trial
Aug 12, 2025
Lead: Implementation Gaps in US Syringe Service Programs, 2022
Aug 05, 2025
Lead: Co-involvement of stimulants with opioids in North America: A 'silent epidemic’
Jul 29, 2025
Lead: Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies?
Jul 22, 2025
Lead: Disparities in Treatment and Referral After an Opioid Overdose Among Emergency Department Patients
Jul 15, 2025
Lead: Prescriber-Level Changes in Buprenorphine Dispensing in the USA Before and After Federal Policy Changes Aimed at Increasing Prescribing
Jul 08, 2025
Lead: Joint Clinical Practice Guideline on Benzodiazepine Tapering: Considerations When Risks Outweigh Benefits
Jun 24, 2025
Lead: Receipt of addiction treatment after nonfatal opioid overdose and risk of subsequent overdose: A retrospective cohort study
Jun 17, 2025
Lead: Bitter sensing protects Drosophila from developing experience-dependent cocaine consumption preference
Jun 10, 2025
Lead: Memory function in patients with opioid dependence treated with buprenorphine and methadone in comparison with healthy persons
Jun 02, 2025
Lead: Medicaid Unwinding and Changes in Buprenorphine Dispensing
May 28, 2025
Lead: Loneliness Among US Veterans With Problematic Substance Use: Results From the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study
May 20, 2025
Lead: The IARC Perspective on the Effects of Policies on Reducing Alcohol Consumption
May 13, 2025
Lead: Building Multidisciplinary Consensus on Inpatient Xylazine Management through Clinical Protocols
May 06, 2025
Lead: Varenicline for Youth Nicotine Vaping Cessation: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Apr 29, 2025
Lead: Comprehensive drug policies increase trust in local government: an analysis of authorities’ and residents’ perspectives in rural US Appalachian and Midwestern counties
Apr 22, 2025
Lead: Hospital Addiction Consultation Service and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
Apr 15, 2025
Lead: Averted lung cancer deaths due to reductions in cigarette smoking in the United States, 1970–2022
Apr 08, 2025
Lead: Prescription Stimulant Use, Misuse, and Use Disorder Among US Adults Aged 18 to 64 Years
Apr 01, 2025
Lead: Alcohol Use Disorder Medication Coverage and Utilization Management in Medicaid Managed Care Plans
Mar 25, 2025
Lead: Association Between Telehealth Initiation Of Stimulant Therapy And New Substance Use Disorder Diagnoses
Mar 18, 2025
Lead: The association between buprenorphine doses above 16 milligrams and treatment retention in a multi-payer national sample in the United States, 2014 to 2021
Mar 11, 2025
Lead: Illicit Substance Use and Treatment Access Among Adults Experiencing Homelessness
Mar 04, 2025
Lead: Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults With Alcohol Use Disorder
Feb 25, 2025
Lead: Cannabis Use Disorder Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations and 5-Year Mortality
Feb 19, 2025
Lead: Real-Time Assessment of Alcohol Reward, Stimulation, and Negative Affect in Individuals With and Without Alcohol Use Disorder and Depressive Disorders
Feb 11, 2025
Lead: Outpatient Low-Dose Initiation of Buprenorphine for People Using Fentanyl
Feb 04, 2025
Lead: Association of State Cannabis Legalization With Cannabis Use Disorder and Cannabis Poisoning
Jan 28, 2025
Lead: Current Advances in Behavioral Addictions: From Fundamental Research to Clinical Practice
Jan 21, 2025
ASAM Weekly Special Episode: Dr. David Fiellin & Dr. Eric Strain sit down to discuss the concept of Treatment Refractory Addiction
Jan 14, 2025
Lead: Review of Evidence on Alcohol and Health
Jan 14, 2025
Lead: The impact of schizophrenia genetic load and heavy cannabis use on the risk of psychotic disorder in the EU-GEI case-control and UK Biobank studies
Dec 17, 2024
Lead: Prevalence of pharmacotherapy for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and prescription stimulant misuse: A national study of US college students
Dec 10, 2024
Lead: Xylazine Pharmacokinetics in Patients Testing Positive for Fentanyl and Xylazine
Dec 04, 2024
Lead: Suicide in people prescribed opioid-agonist therapy in Scotland, United Kingdom, 2011–2020: A national retrospective cohort study
Nov 19, 2024
Lead: Links between adolescent binge drinking and midlife alcohol use behaviors by age, sex, and race/ethnicity
Nov 05, 2024
Lead: Buprenorphine/Naloxone vs Methadone for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
Oct 29, 2024
Lead: Association of Daily Doses of Buprenorphine With Urgent Health Care Utilization
Oct 22, 2024
Lead: Facilitators of and barriers to buprenorphine initiation in the emergency department: a scoping review
Oct 15, 2024
Lead: Cannabis Policy Impacts Public Health and Health Equity
Oct 08, 2024
ASAM Weekly Special Episode: Dr. Shannon Miller talks PAM-7 and his path to addiction medicine [From the ASAM 55th Annual Conference]
Sep 30, 2024
Lead: Risk of Incident Psychosis and Mania With Prescription Amphetamines
Sep 24, 2024
Lead: Cannabis Laws and Utilization of Medications for the Treatment of Mental Health Disorders
Sep 17, 2024
Lead: State-level racial and ethnic disparities in buprenorphine treatment duration in the United States
Sep 10, 2024
Lead: Virtual reality-based Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE-VR) as an adjunct to medications for opioid use disorder: a Phase 1 trial
Sep 04, 2024
Lead: The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health
Aug 27, 2024
Lead: Alcohol Consumption Patterns and Mortality Among Older Adults With Health-Related or Socioeconomic Risk Factors
Aug 20, 2024
Lead: Physician Reluctance to Intervene in Addiction: A Systematic Review
Aug 13, 2024
ASAM Weekly Special Episode: Rapid Initiation of Injection Naltrexone for OUD | Dr. Matisyahu Shulman & Dr. Adam Bisaga
Aug 06, 2024
Lead: Social Vulnerability and Prevalence and Treatment for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
Aug 06, 2024
Lead: Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain
Jul 30, 2024
Lead: Secondhand Nicotine Absorption From E-Cigarette Vapor vs Tobacco Smoke in Children
Jul 23, 2024
Lead: Benzodiazepine use in relation to long-term dementia risk and imaging markers of neurodegeneration: a population-based study
Jul 16, 2024
Lead: Extended-release ketamine tablets for treatment-resistant depression: a randomized placebo-controlled phase 2 trial
Jul 09, 2024
Lead: Global status report on alcohol and health and treatment of substance use disorders
Jul 02, 2024
Lead: Community-Based Cluster-Randomized Trial to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths
Jun 25, 2024
Lead: Piloting a Hospital-Based Rapid Methadone Initiation Protocol for Fentanyl
Jun 18, 2024
Lead: Associations of semaglutide with incidence and recurrence of alcohol use disorder in real-world population
Jun 11, 2024
Lead: Innovation and adaptation: The rise of a fentanyl smoking culture in San Francisco
Jun 04, 2024
Lead: Rapid Initiation of Injection Naltrexone for Opioid Use Disorder
May 28, 2024
Lead: Burden of Mental Disorders and Suicide Attributable to Childhood Maltreatment
May 21, 2024
Lead: Associations of cannabis use, use frequency, and cannabis use disorder with violent behavior among young adults in the United States
May 14, 2024
Lead: Biomarkers of metal exposure in adolescent e-cigarette users
May 07, 2024
Lead: Association of regular opioid use with incident dementia and neuroimaging markers of brain health in chronic pain patients
Apr 30, 2024
Lead: Preventing deaths after prison release
Apr 23, 2024
Lead: Telling the story of the opioid crisis
Apr 16, 2024
Lead: Impact of jail-based methadone or buprenorphine treatment on non-fatal opioid overdose after incarceration
Apr 09, 2024
Lead: Epigenome-wide association study on methamphetamine dependence
Apr 02, 2024
Lead: Disposable E-Cigarette Use and Subsequent Use Patterns in Adolescents and Young Adults
Mar 26, 2024
Lead: Adolescent Δ8-THC and Marijuana Use in the US
Mar 19, 2024
Lead: Association of Cannabis Use With Cardiovascular Outcomes Among US Adults
Mar 12, 2024
Lead: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Geographic Availability of Buprenorphine
Mar 05, 2024
Lead: Smoking changes adaptive immunity with persistent effects
Feb 27, 2024
Lead: Overdose mortality incidence and supervised consumption services
Feb 20, 2024
Lead: Safety of e-cigarettes and nicotine patches as stop-smoking aids in pregnancy
Feb 13, 2024
Lead: Polysubstance mortality trends in White and Black Americans during the opioid epidemic
Feb 06, 2024
Lead: First Trimester Use of Buprenorphine or Methadone
Jan 30, 2024
Lead: Trends in hallucinogen-associated emergency department visits
Jan 23, 2024
Lead: Adolescent Residential Addiction Treatment In The US
Jan 17, 2024
Lead: Benzodiazepine Discontinuation and Mortality
Jan 09, 2024
ASAM Weekly Top 10 Peer reviewed Scientific Publications of 2023
Dec 28, 2023
Lead: Examining the benefit of a higher maintenance dose of extended-release buprenorphine
Dec 19, 2023
Lead: Relationship between alcohol use and firearm-involved suicide
Dec 12, 2023