Please read Dr. Olfson’s article in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment titled, “Psychosocial and behavioral therapy in conjunction with medication for opioid use disorder: Patterns, predictors, and association with buprenorphine treatment...
More than half of Medicare beneficiaries are diagnosed with dementia during their lifetime, and of those diagnosed who receive intensive end-of-life care – such as mechanical ventilation, intubation, feeding tube initiation and new dialysis – most are from racial and...
As New Jersey’s new health and sexual education standards take effect, a large majority of Garden State residents are in favor of such content being taught in middle (71 percent) and high school (88 percent) but are pretty evenly divided when it comes to elementary...
A Rutgers-led study of nearly 1,350 patients receiving care for HIV at nine different US clinics has identified steps healthcare teams can take to identify and treat more sexually transmitted infections (STIs): Audio computer-assisted self-interview (ACASI) sexual...
In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that suicide was the 12th leading cause of death overall in the United States, with more than 45,900 lives lost. While national rates declined in 2019 and 2020 from a previous 20-year high of 14.2 deaths...
