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Addiction Medicine 2025 Longitudinal Assessment References

Due to copyright restrictions, the Addiction Medicine Conjoint Committee cannot provide most reference materials used for longitudinal assessment. However, a list of references used for the 2025 longitudinal assessment can be found below.

  • Addiction (Mar 2008); Vol. 103, Issue 3; Exposure to opioid maintenance treatment reduces long-term mortality; pg. 462-468; The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2003); Vol. 3; Methadone maintenance at different dosages for opioid dependence
  • The New England Journal of Medicine (Nov 2000); Vol. 343, Issue 18; A comparison of levomethadyl acetate, buprenorphine, and methadone for opioid dependence; pg. 1290-1297
  • Critical Care Medicine (Jul 2024); Vol. 52, Issue 7; Variation in use of medications for opioid use disorder in critically ill patients across the United States; pg. e365-e375
  • Irish Journal of Medical Science (Mar 2024); Effect of oral naloxone on opioid-induced constipation in methadone maintenance treatment patients, a double-blind, placebo-control, clinical trial
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine (May 2020); Vol. 58, Issue 5; Trends in the prevalence of current, daily, and nondaily cigarette smoking and quit ratios by depression status in the U.S.: 2005-2017; pg. 691-698; Nicotine & Tobacco Research: Official Journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (Jan 2021); Vol. 23, Issue 2; Longitudinal association between smoking abstinence and depression severity in those with baseline current, past, and no history of major depressive episode in an international online tobacco cessation study; pg. 267-275
  • American Society of Addiction Medicine (Updated 2023); About the ASAM Criteria.
    https://www.asam.org/asam-criteria/about-the-asam-criteria
  • American Society of Addiction Medicine (Updated 2024); The ASAM/AAAP clinical practice guideline on the management of stimulant use disorder; pg. 69.
    https://downloads.asam.org/sitefinity-production-blobs/docs/default-source/quality-science/stud_guideline_document_final.pdf?sfvrsn=71094b38_1
  • Canadian Family Physician (Feb 2020); Vol. 66, Issue 2; Cannabis use during pregnancy and postpartum; pg. 98-103.
  • Annals of Medicine (Nov 2021); Vol. 53, Issue 1; Drug dependence is not addiction—and it matters; pg. 1989-1992.
  • Current Medicinal Chemistry (2015); Vol. 22, Issue 6; Alcohol addiction: a molecular biology perspective; pg. 670-684
  • Neuropharmacology (Aug 2017); Vol. 122; Genetics and genomics of alcohol responses in Drosophila; pg. 22-35
  • The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (Nov 2014); Vol. 40, Issue 6; Molecular neurobiology of addiction: what’s all the (Δ)FosB about?; pg. 428-437
  • Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (Sep 2001); Vol. 98, Issue 20
  • DeltaFosB: a sustained molecular switch for addiction
  • Journal of Neural Transmission (Feb 2024); Vol. 131, Issue 5; It is not just about transcription: involvement of brain RNA splicing in substance use disorders; pg. 495-503.
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence (Sep 2020); Vol. 214; Cocaine use and overdose mortality in the United States: evidence from two national data sources, 2002-2018
  • InformedHealth.org (Updated Jun 2022); In brief: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279297
  • JAMA Psychiatry (Dec 2020); Vol. 77, Issue 12; Efficacy of a psychosocial pain management intervention for men and women with substance use disorders and chronic pain: a randomized clinical trial; pg. 1225-1234; Journal of Addictive Diseases (Jun 2023); Co-occurring pain and addiction: prognostic implications for healthcare professionals in residential treatment for substance use disorder; pg. 1-10
  • SAMHSA (Updated Oct 2023); Substance use confidentiality regulations.
    https://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/who-we-are/laws-regulations/confidentiality-regulations-faqs
  • StatPearls (Updated Jan 2024); Opioid use disorder.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK553166/
  • StatPearls (Updated Nov 2022); Patient rights and ethics.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538279/
  • The ASAM Essentials of Addiction Medicine, 3rd ed. (2020); pg. 24.
  • The ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine, 6th ed. (2018); Ch. 49: Physician Health Programs and Addiction Among Physicians