Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence

Table of Contents: September-October, 2015

INTERVENTIONS & ASSESSMENTS

Two Screening Questions Detect Drug Use Disorders in Primary Care
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/saitz_tiet.html

Efficacy of Electronic Interventions for Unhealthy Alcohol Use
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/kraemer_dedert%20.html

Titrated-Dose Baclofen May Have Efficacy for Treating Alcohol Use Disorder
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/saitz_muller.html

Clinical Reminders Insufficient to Implement Alcohol Screening
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/friedmann_williams.html

Can Brief Alcohol Intervention That Includes Referral Lead to Receipt of Treatment by Medical and Surgical Inpatients?
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/bertholet_simioni.html

Brief Alcohol Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults Result in Modest Reductions in Consumption
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/tetrault_tannersmith.html

Response to Naltrexone for Alcohol Use Disorder is Not Mediated by an Opioid Receptor Polymorphism
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/rastegar_oslin.html

Does Opioid Agonist Therapy for Prisoners Reduce Drug-Related Deaths After Prison Release?
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/kraemer_bird.html

 
HEALTH OUTCOMES

Effects of Alcohol on Blood Pressure Among Women: A Randomized Trial
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/ellison_mori.html
 

HIV & HCV

Buprenorphine Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Improves Primary Care-Based Addiction Treatment Engagement Among People With and At Risk for HIV
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/tetrault_walley.html

Alcohol-Related Diagnoses Increase the Risk of Hospitalization Among People with HIV
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/rastegar_rentsch.html

Receipt of Both Antiretroviral Therapy and Opioid Agonist Therapy Associated with Decreased Mortality Among People with HIV and Injection Drug Use
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/merlin_nosyk.html

Benzodiazepine Use is an Independent Risk Factor for HIV Infection Among People with Injection Drug Use
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_sept15/nolan_ickowicz.html

 
SLIDE PRESENTATIONS

Update on Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/update.html

Journal Club
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/club2.html