BACKGROUND: Substance use disorder (SUD) involves excessive substance consumption and persistent reward-seeking behaviors, leading to serious physical, cognitive, and social consequences. This disorder is a global health crisis tied to increased mort...
BACKGROUND: Substance abuse has become a serious public health problem worldwide, and finding effective prevention and treatment strategies is undoubtedly an urgent need. This study addresses the risk factors that lead to relapse behaviors among subs...
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the challenges associated with mental health and substance use (SU), with societal and economic upheavals leading to heightened stress and increased reliance on drugs as a coping mechanism. Centers for Di...
Changes in drug use in the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic and their long-term consequences are not well understood. We employed natural language processing and machine learning to analyse a large dataset of self-reported rates of and...
OBJECTIVE: Substance use disorder (SUD) is clinically under-detected and under-documented. We built and validated machine learning (ML) models to estimate SUD prevalence from electronic health record (EHR) data and to assess variation in facility-lev...
BACKGROUND: To address gaps in global understanding of cultural and social variations, this study used a high-performance machine learning (ML) model to predict adolescent substance use across three national datasets.
BACKGROUND: Although recreational drug use is a strong risk factor for acute cardiovascular events, systematic testing is currently not performed in patients admitted to intensive cardiac care units, with a risk of underdetection. To address this iss...
BACKGROUND: Early treatment discontinuation in substance use disorder treatment settings is common and often difficult to predict. We leveraged a machine learning approach (i.e., random forest) to identify individuals at risk for treatment attrition,...
With the growing global challenge of drug abuse, there is an urgent need for rapid, accurate, and cost-effective drug detection methods. This study introduces an innovative approach to drug abuse screening by quickly detecting ephedrine (EPH) in tear...
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
Dec 9, 2024
BACKGROUND: Craving is a core factor driving drug-seeking and -taking, representing a significant risk factor for relapse. This study aims to identify neuroanatomical biomarkers for quantifying and predicting craving.
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