Trends in incident prescriptions for behavioral health medications in the US, 2018-2022

G Chai, J Xu, S Goyal, C Woods, A Ho, J Song… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The COVID-19 pandemic reportedly increased behavioral health needs and
impacted treatment access. Objective To assess changes in incident prescriptions …

Public preferences for opioid reform in a post-COVID era: Consensus and divides

C Mancini, HM Boehme - Journal of Criminal Justice, 2024 - Elsevier
As opioid-related deaths have increased nationally, so too has policy attention toward
addressing the problem. However, there are questions concerning public perceptions of the …

Strategies to improve access to care for patients with opioid use disorder

L Liu, C Zhang, AE Bonny… - Annals of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) faces several challenges, including restricted
access to medications, geographical and logistical barriers, and variability in treatment …

A linguistic analysis of dehumanization toward substance use across three decades of news articles

S Giorgi, DRS Habib, D Bellew, G Sherman… - Frontiers in public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Substances and the people who use them have been dehumanized for
decades. As a result, lawmakers and healthcare providers have implemented policies that …

CARE-SD: classifier-based analysis for recognizing provider stigmatizing and doubt marker labels in electronic health records: model development and validation

A Walker, A Thorne, S Das, J Love… - Journal of the …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Objective To detect and classify features of stigmatizing and biased language in intensive
care electronic health records (EHRs) using natural language processing techniques …

A thematic framework for analyzing large-scale self-reported social media data on opioid use disorder treatment using buprenorphine product

M Basak, O Sharif, SE Lord, JT Borodovsky… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Background: One of the key FDA-approved medications for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is
buprenorphine. Despite its popularity, individuals often report various information needs …

Evaluating remyelination compounds for new applications in opioid use disorder management

G Sharma, Q Wade, NM Graziane - Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is associated with a reduction in brain white matter, affecting
critical areas involved in decision-making, impulse control, and reward processing. The FDA …

Which Social Media Platforms Provide the Most Informative Data for Monitoring the Opioid Crisis?

KA Carpenter, AT Nguyen, DA Smith, IA Samori… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Social media can provide real-time insight into trends in
substance use, addiction, and recovery. Prior studies have leveraged data from platforms …

Effects of Stigmatizing Language on Trainees' Clinical Decision-Making in Substance Use Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial

NK Sheth, AB Wilson, JC West, DC Schilling… - Academic …, 2024 - Springer
Objectives Substance use disorder (SUD) continues to be one of the most stigmatized and
under-treated conditions in the United States. Stigmatizing language used by healthcare …

CARE-SD: Classifier-based analysis for recognizing and eliminating stigmatizing and doubt marker labels in electronic health records: model development and …

D Walker, A Thorne, S Das, J Love, HLF Cooper… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Objective: To detect and classify features of stigmatizing and biased language in intensive
care electronic health records (EHRs) using natural language processing techniques …