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Below is a list of topic-based articles on mental health or substance use that dive deeper into topics discussed in the web library.
Articles are updated monthly and are sorted by publication date, with the newest articles at the top.
- Mental health
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Seeing the effects of climate change firsthand can invoke fear, sadness, hopelessness and despair for many farmers and ranchers. A new project from Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center aims to help people understand their climate change related emotions, along with ways to work through them.
- Mental health
KFF Health News
Native Americans die by suicide at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group, yet research into effective and culturally appropriate interventions is uncommon.
- Substance use
The Lund Report
The Oregon Health Authority has turned its focus to the state’s skyrocketing rate of opioid overdoses among young people by offering free opioid reversal medication to schools.
- Mental health
The Lund Report
The Agristress Helpline is free and has trained counselors with experience in the callers' industries who can take phone calls in 160 languages
- Substance use
The Lund Report
The announcement comes amid criticism over Measure 110, the state’s drug decriminalization law, and a move to tighten the law.
- Substance use
The Denver Gazette
Commanders across the military are now required to help troops get mental health care as soon as possible to help prevent suicides under a new law called the Brandon Act.
- Mental health
Health and Human Services
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline add services for people who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing, as part of ongoing efforts to expand accessibility to behavioral health care for underserved communities.
- Substance use
CBS News
Amid the ongoing fentanyl crisis, the California legislature is considering an East Bay lawmaker's proposal to cap the cost of overdose-reversing drug naloxone to $10 or less.
- Substance use
The Lund Report
The state corrections department is expanding a program that certifies prisoners to be drug and alcohol counselors and mentors — and it couldn’t happen at a better time
- Substance use
The Lund Report
Recovery Works Northwest has opened a medical withdrawal management facility in Portland that has 16 beds and will serve Multnomah and Clackamas counties.
- Substance use
The New York Times
As fentanyl overdoses in public spaces spike, the lifesaving drug Narcan is being stocked by more and more bars and restaurants.
- Mental health
CBS News
The age group that saw the largest percentage increase in suicides last year was adults 65 years or older.
Mental Health
Scholarly Articles & Reports
- Social media and mental health: A collaborative review
- Medicaid reimbursement for psychiatric services: Comparisons across states and with medicare
- The social media diet: A scoping review to investigate the association between social media, body image and eating disorders amongst young people
- Mental health service utilization rates among commercially insured adults in the US during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Hospitalizations associated with mental health conditions among adolescents in the US and France during the COVID-19 pandemic
- US trends in drug overdose mortality among pregnant and postpartum persons, 2017-2020
- Effectiveness of man therapy to reduce suicidal ideation and depression among working-age men: A randomized controlled trial
- Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on mental health visits in pediatric primary care
- Adverse childhood experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and associations with poor mental health and suicidal behaviors among high school students — Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, United States, January–June 2021
- The economic burden of mental health inequities in the United States report
- The role of social work in confronting the farmer suicide crisis: Best practice recommendations and a call to action
- Cost-effectiveness evidence of mental health prevention and promotion interventions: A systematic review of economic evaluations
- Association of Logic’s hip hop song “1-800-273-8255” with Lifeline calls and suicides in the United States: interrupted time series analysis
- Choosing appropriate language to reduce the stigma around mental illness and substance use disorders
- Cost-effectiveness evidence of mental health prevention and promotion interventions: A systematic review of economic evaluations
- Addressing the mental health impact of COVID-19 through population health
- Mental health promotion and prevention in primary care: What should we be doing vs. what are we actually doing?
- Psychological approaches to suicide treatment and prevention
Substance Use
Scholarly Articles
- Treatments used among adolescent residential addiction treatment facilities in the US, 2022
- Racial inequality in receipt of medications for opioid use disorder
- National trends in pediatric deaths from fentanyl, 1999-2021
- Fatal and nonfatal opioid overdose risk following release from prison: A retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data
- Quality of opioid use disorder treatment for persons with and without disabling conditions
- Characteristics of fatal poisonings among infants and young children in the United States
- Trends in out-of-pocket costs for and characteristics of pharmacy-dispensed buprenorphine medications for opioid use disorder treatment by type of payer, 2015 to 2020
- Trends and characteristics of buprenorphine-involved overdose deaths prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic
- An immunconjugate vaccine alters distribution and reduces the antinociceptive, behavioral and physiological effects of fentanyl in male and female rats
- Racial and ethnic disparities in buprenorphine treatment duration in the US
- Percentage of heavy drinking days following psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy vs placebo in the treatment of adult patients with alcohol use disorder: A randomized clinical trial
- Adolescent and adult time trends in US hallucinogen use, 2002–19: any use, and use of ecstasy, LSD and PCP
- Association of methamphetamine and opioid use with nonfatal overdose in rural communities
- Aided recall of The Real Cost e-cigarette prevention advertisements among a nationally representative sample of adolescents
- Vital signs: Drug overdose deaths, by selected sociodemographic and social determinants of health characteristics — 25 states and the District of Columbia, 2019–2020
- Methadone-involved overdose deaths in the US before and after federal policy changes expanding take-home methadone doses from opioid treatment programs
- Epidemiological trends in opioid-only and opioid/polysubstance-related death rates among American Indian/Alaska Native populations from 1999 to 2019: a retrospective longitudinal ecological study
- Xylazine spreads across the US: A growing component of the increasingly synthetic and polysubstance overdose crisis
- Why Deaths of Despair are increasing in the US and not other industrial nations—Insights from neuroscience and anthropology
- Evaluating adolescent substance use and suicide in the pediatric emergency department
- The fourth wave of the US opioid epidemic and its implications for the rural US: A federal perspective
- Methamphetamine use, methamphetamine use disorder, and associated overdose Deaths among US adults
- The rise of illicit fentanyls, stimulants and the fourth wave of the opioid overdose crisis
- Drugs, brains, and behavior: The science of addiction
- Co-use of methamphetamine and opioids among people in treatment in Oregon: A qualitative examination of interrelated structural, community, and individual-level factors
- A clash of epidemics: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic response on opioid overdose