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From Rehab.com, Addiction News Weekly breaks down the most important stories in addiction and recovery. Each episode covers new research, drug trends, and policy changes in a way that’s clear and easy to follow.

  1. 3d ago

    Substance Use Disorders Raise Anxiety Risk, and Recovery Changes the Odds | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

    New research finds that people with cannabis, alcohol, or nicotine use disorders face a substantially elevated risk of developing generalized anxiety disorder within a decade, and remission cuts that risk by more than half. Dr. Sylvie Stacy, Rehab.com’s Medical Officer, breaks down that study alongside an early TMS trial for methamphetamine use disorder and the CDC’s first national look at binge eating among high school students. Source: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/substance-use-disorder-linked-risk-generalized-anxiety-2026a10012lrhttps://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/75/su/su7501a5.htm

    Substance Use Disorders Raise Anxiety Risk, and Recovery Changes the Odds | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

  2. Oct 27

    How Addiction Rewires the Brain at Every Age | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

    This week’s episode covers three studies that map how addiction changes the brain differently at each stage of life, from adolescent impulsivity to the cognitive toll of late adulthood. Rehab.com Medical Officer Dr. Sylvie Stacy examines what the findings mean for clinicians treating people across the recovery spectrum. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12270216/https://news.utexas.edu/2026/10/15/the-brains-tug-of-war-between-impulse-and-self-control/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13522110/

    How Addiction Rewires the Brain at Every Age | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

  3. Oct 20

    What It Costs to Ask for Help | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

    The Senate unanimously passed two bills to reduce the career cost of mental health care for pilots and air traffic controllers, a national survey found Americans grant fewer rights to people with substance use disorders than to people with physical disabilities, and a Denver randomized trial shows why reaching people who use methamphetamine and linking them to treatment are two separate problems. Rehab.com Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sylvie Stacy explains why there is no medication anchor for methamphetamine use disorder and what that means for how treatment programs are built. Source: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2026/september/30/senate-unanimously-approves-mental-health-medication-billshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2854593

    What It Costs to Ask for Help | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

  4. Oct 13

    What Gets Missed Before Treatment Starts | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

    A JAMA Psychiatry viewpoint warns that psychiatry’s main diagnostic tool can misread deaf and hard-of-hearing patients, a Swedish registry study of 4.2 million people quantifies how sharply a substance use disorder raises suicide risk, and a national study finds cannabis use disorder more than doubling among U.S. adults over 50. Rehab.com Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sylvie Stacy explains why the combination of alcohol and drug use disorders carries a specific neurobiological vulnerability, and why treating addiction without addressing a co-occurring mood disorder leaves the primary driver intact. Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2854370https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/the-importance-of-improving-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-competency-in-psychiatric-practicehttps://www.newswise.com/articles/one-in-nine-older-adults-who-use-cannabis-meet-criteria-for-cannabis-use-disorder

    What Gets Missed Before Treatment Starts | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

  5. Oct 6

    Alcohol Trends, Polypharmacy, and Benzodiazepine Goals | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

    A new CDC-based national study finds heavy drinking fell for the first time since the pandemic, but climbed more than a third in adults ages 50 to 64; more than one in five older adults carries a potentially dangerous medication combination; and psychiatrists are calling for clearer, revisable goals in benzodiazepine prescribing. Rehab.com Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sylvie Stacy explains why the encouraging national alcohol headline masks diverging risk by age group, and why screening must remain broad even as clinical outreach targets specific populations. Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2854478

    Alcohol Trends, Polypharmacy, and Benzodiazepine Goals | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

  6. Sep 29

    Medetomidine, Gabapentin, and Treatment Access | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

    A veterinary sedative called medetomidine is now turning up across the fentanyl supply in multiple U.S. cities, causing sedation and withdrawal that standard opioid medications are not equipped to treat. Rehab.com Medical Officer Dr. Sylvie Stacy breaks down the clinical picture, alongside new findings on gabapentin misuse in treatment settings and a global snapshot of where opioid treatment is, and is not, actually available. Source: https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/drug-checking.pagehttps://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7415a2.htm

    Medetomidine, Gabapentin, and Treatment Access | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

  7. Sep 22

    Alcohol Cancer Deaths Doubled, Cannabis in Overdoses, and the Methadone Question | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

    New research shows alcohol-linked cancer deaths more than doubled between 1990 and 2023, affecting cancer types that most people never connect to drinking. Dr. Sylvie Stacy joins this week to explain what a large opioid treatment study reveals about methadone, buprenorphine-naloxone, and what happens when people leave treatment too soon. Sources: https://www.onclive.com/view/alcohol-linked-cancer-s-toll-extends-far-beyond-the-liver-with-deaths-rising-across-age-groupshttps://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/75/wr/mm7534a2.htm

    Alcohol Cancer Deaths Doubled, Cannabis in Overdoses, and the Methadone Question | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

  8. Sep 15

    Therapy Dropout, Peer Support, and MAT | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com

    A new study in JAMA Network Open found that more than a quarter of patients stopped individual therapy after three sessions or fewer, a gap that mirrors early dropout patterns in addiction treatment. For National Recovery Month, Rehab.com Medical Officer Dr. Sylvie Stacy examines peer support specialists and what the evidence says about whether they help people stay. Source:⁠⁠⁠ https://www.samhsa.gov/recovery-monthhttps://www.wunc.org/2026-08-06/most-u-s-doctors-avoid-treating-patients-with-addiction-leaving-millions-vulnerablehttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/nx-s1-5945729/a-conversation-about-doctors-addiction-patients-and-stigma

    Therapy Dropout, Peer Support, and MAT | Addiction News Weekly by Rehab.com
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