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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

Substance Use

With youth overdose death rates soaring, state offers free opioid reversal medication to schools

Legislature forms committee to address Oregon’s addiction epidemic

A prison pipeline that could help meet Oregon’s behavioral health workforce needs

Ageism, stigma hinders response to senior alcohol use disorder

Addiction treatment medicine is vastly underprescribed, especially by race, study finds 

Bills to make naloxone more accessible seek to slow opioid fatalities in Oregon 

Legal use of hallucinogenic mushrooms begins in Oregon

With overdoses at record highs, a veterinary tranquilizer spreading through the U.S. drug supply poses new threats

The Role of Cooperative Extension in Delivering Training and Technical Assistance to Support Evidence-Based Behavioral Health Practices in Rural Communities

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

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

Vital signs: Drug overdose deaths, by selected sociodemographic and social determinants of health characteristics — 25 states and the District of Columbia, 2019–2020

The fourth wave of the US opioid epidemic and its implications for the rural US: A federal perspective