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Screening, brief intervention in primary care appear ineffective for reducing drug use

Screening and brief intervention targeting drug use do not appear to be effective in primary care, according to the findings of 2 recent studies.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/08/12/4.htm
12 Aug 2014

‘Party drugs' require hard work to spot and treat

Taking a history is important for identifying abuse of some drugs that aren't caught by screening tests but may still have serious consequences for users.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/06/party-drugs.htm
1 Jun 2013

Safe prescribing can lessen overdose risk

In what one commentator called an “appalling” finding, 90% of patients in a recent study admitted to a hospital with a prescription opioid overdose eventually received another opioid prescription##mdash;often from the same clinician. Efforts to improve safe prescribing hope to fix the problem.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/10/overdose.htm
1 Oct 2016

Screening for substance use, anxiety gains new significance

This issue also covers the origins of medical eponyms, continuous glucose monitoring in the hospital, and a preview of ACP's virtual Internal Medicine Meeting.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/03/screening-for-substance-use-anxiety-gains-new-significance.htm
1 Mar 2021

An internist with many interests

Jock Murray, MD, MACP, is like an 18th-century physician, not in the sense that he prescribes bloodletting or mercury, but in the wide range of his knowledge and interests.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/01/profile.htm
1 Jan 2015

Palliative care's place outside cancer

Integrated palliative care is important in offering comfort measures to patients with conditions that are expected to shorten their life spans.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/06/palliative-cares-place-outside-cancer.htm
1 Jun 2019

Headaches that should flag further attention

Every patient with a headache needs to have secondary causes ruled out, and the acronym SNOOP4 is easy to adopt and use.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/01/headaches-that-should-flag-further-attention.htm
1 Jan 2018

Treat addicted patients for the long-term

Diagnosing addictions are often based on one question. An expert offers advice to make that one question count, and to move from diagnosis to treatment.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/06/addiction.htm
1 Jun 2009

Large valsartan recall, new warnings for fluoroquinolones

This column reviews details on recent recalls, warnings, and approvals.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/09/large-valsartan-recall-new-warnings-for-fluoroquinolones.htm
1 Sep 2018

First Ebola vaccine approved; FDA enforcement on e-cigs

This column reviews details on recent recalls, warnings, and approvals.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/03/first-ebola-vaccine-approved-fda-enforcement-on-e-cigs.htm
1 Mar 2020

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