Drug and alcohol dependence
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Drug Alcohol Depend · May 2018
Correlates of prescription opioid misuse among Black adults: Findings from the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
Prescription drug misuse, especially opioid misuse, has become a public health crisis in the US. While much research attention has been focused on prescription drug misuse, a number of notable gaps in the literature remain. The current research addresses one of these gaps by examining racial/ethnic variation in prescription opioid misuse among adults. ⋯ The current research identified a number of unique correlates of prescription opioid misuse among Black adults. To more effectively deal with the current public health crisis, research must identify risk factors among various groups within the population.
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Drug Alcohol Depend · May 2018
A fMRI study on the impact of advertising for flavored e-cigarettes on susceptible young adults.
E-cigarettes are sold in flavors such as "skittles," "strawberrylicious," and "juicy fruit," and no restrictions are in place on marketing e-cigarettes to youth. Sweets/fruits depicted in e-cigarette advertisements may increase their appeal to youth and interfere with health warnings. This study tested a brain biomarker of product preference for sweet/fruit versus tobacco flavor e-cigarettes, and whether advertising for flavors interfered with warning labels. ⋯ These and exploratory eye-tracking findings suggest that advertising for sweet/fruit flavors may increase positive associations with e-cigarettes and/or override negative associations with tobacco, and interfere with health warnings, suggesting that one way to reduce the appeal of e-cigarettes to youth and educate youth about e-cigarette health risks is to regulate advertising for flavors.