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Racial/ethnic equity in substance use treatment research: The way forward
Keywords Opioid epidemic; racial/ethnic minorities; substance use disorder; treatment disparities; treatment outcomes; research methods; measurement equivalence; social determinants of health(2021)
Disparities in Opioid Overdose Death Trends by Race/Ethnicity, 2018–2019, From the HEALing Communities Study
Keywords Opioid overdose deaths; racial disparities; opioid overdose rates; public health(2021)
Examining barriers to harm reduction and child welfare services for pregnant women and mothers who use substances using a stigma action framework
Keywords Stigma; substance use; pregnant women; harm reduction; child welfare; barriers to care(2021)
Lost in Translation: The Gap Between Neurobiological Mechanisms and Psychosocial Treatment Research for Substance Use Disorders
Keywords Substance use disorder; Addiction; Neuroscience; Psychosocial treatment; Translational research; Treatment mechanisms; neurobiological mechanisms; motivational interviewing; contingency management; cognitive behavioral therapy; relapse prevention(2021)
Promising vulnerability markers of substance use and misuse: A review of human neurobehavioral studies
Keywords Adolescence; substance use; neuroimaging; reward processing; impulsivity; prefrontal cortex; addiction; substance use disorder(2021)
Investigating Patients' Perceptions of Residential Substance Use Treatment: Is Drop Out a Deliberate or Impulsive Act?
Keywords dropout; patient perspective; psychological; residential treatment; substance use disorder(2021)
Responsible Use of Open-Access Developmental Data: the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (abcd) Study
Keywords Children; development; brain; behavior; neuroscience; psychology; review(2021)
Rethinking Concepts and Categories for Understanding the Neurodevelopmental Effects of Childhood Adversity
Keywords children; childhood; stress; trauma; behavior; brain development; environment; early-life stress; adversity; stress neurobiology; child maltreatment(2021)
The Law, the Science, and the Logic of Ending the Teenage Death Penalty
Keywords Death penalty; Roper; Adolescence; Penological objectives; Miller; Eighth Amendment(2021)
Black Girls and the Pipeline from Sexual Abuse to Sexual Exploitation to Prison
Keywords child sexual abuse; black girls; juvenile justice; abuse to prison pipeline; trauma(2021)
Opioid-Induced Structural and Functional Plasticity of Medium-Spiny Neurons in the Nucleus Accumbens
Keywords Addiction; Dendrites; Dendritic spines; Heroin; Medium-spiny neurons; Morphine; Nucleus accumbens; Opioid Use Disorder; Plasticity(2021)
The convergent neuroscience of affective pain and substance use disorder
Keywords alcohol; cingulate cortex; insula; opioids; pain; reinforcement(2021)
Alcohol and Cannabis Use and the Developing Brain
Keywords alcohol; cannabis; adolescence; brain; cognition; neuroimaging(2021)
Article Commentary: Dismantling Racism Against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color across the Substance use Continuum: A Position Statement of the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction
Keywords Racism; substance use disorder; addiction treatment; health equity; harm reduction; drug laws; racial disparities; equity(2021)
Addiction should be treated, not penalized
Keywords mass incarceration; addiction treatment; Racial discrimination; opioid crisis; inequitable enforcement; public health approach; racial disparities(2021)