Yesterday, “the President took his dangerous decision on marijuana from December and made it worse: He skipped legally required procedures and directly rescheduled state-legal ‘medical’ marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III… It will give America’s addiction profiteers massive new…

Members of Congress this week questioned Department of Health and Human Services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr on his 1st year heading the department. Kennedy highlighted the Great American Recovery Initiative and said $2billion in cuts to mental health and substance…

The Recovery Research Institute summarised Professor John Kelly et al’s Long-term relapse: Markers, mechanisms, and implications for disease management in alcohol use disorder. Factors contributing to relapse after long-term remission can differ from those in early recovery and vary across individuals.

The Partnership to End Addiction again collated recent research, this time on Implementing substance use disorder services into acute care settings for pregnant and birthing women, Severity of SUDs in sexual minority vs heterosexual youth, Alcohol and cannabis-driving by adolescents, Managing stimulant-induced…

The Recovery Research Institute summarised Harvard Medical School et al’s Effects of legalizing recreational cannabis sales on cannabis use and cannabis-related disorder among presentations to a psychiatric emergency service – more adolescents at psychiatric emergency departments tested positive for cannabis…

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia examined the link between parenting factors and gaming disorder in young children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – over 80% of US children play video games, and evidence is accumulating that a substantial proportion engage in…