Alison Knopf 《The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter》2020,36(4):9-10

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has strongly advised against the use of cannabidiol (CBD) in any form during pregnancy or while breastfeeding. The same warning applies to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana, and marijuana. These warnings apply to the use of these substances in any form.  相似文献   

    

Alison Knopf 《The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter》2020,36(4):3-4

The White House budget request for fiscal year 2021 for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) proposes to zero out a major prevention program — the Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant — Partnerships for Success program. This is a cut of $109 million. It recommends using the prevention set‐aside (20%) from the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment block grant instead. But it doesn't give any more money to the block grant.  相似文献   

    

Alison Knopf 《The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter》2020,36(2):2-2

• The risks of stopping medication for opioid use disorder too soon
• The fears of teens with epilepsy
• The possibility that preexisting conditions may increase adverse effects of methylphenidate treatment for ADHD

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Alison Knopf 《The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter》2020,36(3):1-7

How many studies will it take to show that young people are overdosing because they are not getting medications needed to treat their opioid use disorder (OUD)? The most recent study shows that this is not likely to change unless there is a system in place to link these young people to treatment, but earlier work by the same senior author shows the problem may be even deeper: stigma, bureaucracy, and lack of prescriber availability.  相似文献   

    

Alison Knopf 《The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter》2020,36(7):9-10

If you are pregnant and have a substance use disorder (SUD), you should not hide it, but rather seek help. This is also true for women without a full‐blown SUD, but who may be concerned that one is developing. During the pandemic and quarantine, drinking in general has been going up, partly due to stress and boredom.  相似文献   

    

Alison Knopf 《The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter》2020,36(6):4-4

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is now one in 54 children based on 2016 data, up from one in 60 in 2014, according to the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The surveillance program estimates ASD prevalence among children aged 8 living in 11 sites. The CDC also found that the prevalence of ASD varied considerably across these sites.  相似文献   

    

Alison Knopf 《The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter》2020,36(6):2-2

• The role of family conflict in suicidality of young children
• Trends in internalizing vs. externalizing problems in teens

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Alison Knopf 《The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter》2016,32(6):3-4

A new study has found that primary care clinicians can screen adolescents with one question for alcohol problems: How many drinks did you have in the past year? For younger teens, the threshold is 3; for older teens, it's 12.  相似文献   

    

Alison Knopf 《The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter》2016,32(12):4-5

In an age of opioid use disorders and more than 70 overdose deaths a day from opioids in the United States, adolescents are usually not given the treatment that is recommended for adults: maintenance with an agonist medication (buprenorphine or methadone). Since methadone is only dispensed in opioid treatment programs (OTPs) and most states require patients to have been dependent on opioids for at least a year, buprenorphine, which is approved for ages 16 or older, is an obvious choice. For a variety of reasons, buprenorphine maintenance for adolescents can be viewed as more of an innovation than a practice. In particular, maintenance with the medications is apparently not even under consideration, with various taper lengths being done instead, despite research showing that tapers end with more than nine out of ten patients relapsing.  相似文献   

    

Alison Knopf 《The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter》2016,32(4):4-4

The February 18 issue of The Lancet Psychiatry is devoted to substance use and young people. The issue's editorial, called “Drug Policy: Getting Over the 20th Century,” makes it clear that substance use disorders are a medical problem, and that criminalizing them has not worked in the almost century‐long history of prohibition in the United Kingdom and even longer in the United States. Citing a paper by Emily Stockings and colleagues in the issue, the editorial points out that “only weak evidence is available to show that tough sanctions reduce criminal offending in general or drug use in particular.”  相似文献