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Making Sure Youth Substance Use Prevention Efforts are Effective

Written by Marla Kauffman | October 24, 2022

Most adults who meet the criteria for substance use disorder began their use in their teenage or young adult years. For this reason, early and effective substance use prevention for youth is extremely important. “Effective” is a key word when it comes to youth substance use prevention efforts. For years, Project Drug Abuse Resistance Education […]

Filed Under: Addiction, Evidence-Based and Best Practices Tagged With: Addiction, red ribbon week, substance use, teenage drug use, youth prevention

Celebrating Recovery

Written by Marla Kauffman | September 7, 2022

September is Recovery Month! IRETA is proud to celebrate pathways to recovery with the Pittsburgh Recovery Walk.

Filed Under: Addiction, IRETA and Our Services, Pittsburgh

Overdose Awareness Day: Honoring Those We Have Lost By Preventing Future Overdose Deaths

Written by Marla Kauffman | August 25, 2022

August 31 marks International Overdose Awareness Day. This is a day to remember those we have lost in the past year to overdose of opioids and other substances. As of November 2021, more than 100,000 people have lost their lives annually to substance overdose.  In order to properly commemorate those lives we have lost, we […]

Filed Under: Addiction in the News, News, Pittsburgh Tagged With: Addiction, addiction treatment, opiate overdose, overdose, overdose awareness day

IRETA Continues to Provide Intensive Learning Experience on Substance Use Disorders for Medical and Pharmacy Students

Written by Marla Kauffman | August 12, 2022

For 23 years, IRETA has hosted medical students for the Scaife Medical Student Fellowship in Substance Use Disorders. The program has been held virtually since 2020, due to COVID-19. This year’s program continued online. For three weeks in both June and July, small cohorts of medical and pharmacy students logged in from across the country […]

Filed Under: Addiction, Evidence-Based and Best Practices, IRETA and Our Services, News, Pittsburgh Tagged With: addiction medicine, addiction treatment, medical student, medical student fellowship

Will the FDA’s Crackdown on Tobacco Products Help Improve Public Health?

Written by Marla Kauffman | July 28, 2022

Is a Juul ban enough to solve the problem of nicotine addiction in young adults? Time has shown us that bans often don’t keep people from using a product or substance.

Filed Under: Addiction, Addiction in the News, Evidence-Based and Best Practices, News Tagged With: Addiction, cigarettes, juul, smoking addiction, teens vaping, tobacco

How Can We Better Serve Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals in Addiction Treatment Settings?

Written by Marla Kauffman | June 30, 2022

Despite that fact that transgender and gender non-conforming people disproportionately experience substance use and mental health disorders, there is a lack of trans-inclusive care and knowledge about gender identity within the addiction treatment field.

Filed Under: Addiction, Addiction in the News, Evidence-Based and Best Practices Tagged With: Addiction, addiction treatment, transgender

Alcoholics Anonymous Works. But It’s Important to Give People Options When It Comes to Recovery.

Written by Marla Kauffman | June 16, 2022

AA’s success rate has been historically difficult to measure, largely because the program is anonymous. But thanks to rigorous research we now know that Alcoholics Anonymous and clinically-related Twelve-Step Facilitation programs can be just as, or more effective than treatment modalities like CBT to maintain long-term sobriety for people with alcohol use disorder.

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An Examination of America’s Deaths of Despair

Written by Marla Kauffman | May 25, 2022

Deaths of Despair are deaths caused by suicide, unintentional drug overdose, and alcohol use and intoxication. The term “deaths of despair” was coined in a 2015 paper by Ann Case and Ryan Deaton. The paper specifically addressed the rising morbidity and mortality of white, non-Hispanic Americans in midlife due to these types of deaths. But […]

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Happy National Nurses Week from IRETA

Written by Marla Kauffman | May 10, 2022

This week is National Nurses Week. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the nurses who work specifically in the field of substance use disorder treatment.

Filed Under: Addiction, Addiction in the News, News Tagged With: Addiction Nursing, addiction treatment, Blog, Harm Reduction, National Nurses Week, Nursing

Join Us For #SUDClinicianChat on Twitter

Written by Marla Kauffman | May 2, 2022

Join us on Twitter on Tuesday, May 24 at 10 a.m. for the first monthly #SUDClinicianChat. This month we will be discussing Co-Occurring Disorders. Over the course of the chat, we will be asking a series of questions about the experience clinicians have working with individuals who have co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. […]

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