Reuters (1/14, Carroll) reports researchers found that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s addiction helpline is not well known and gets relatively little publicity compared to the suicide helpline. The findings were published online Jan. 14 in a research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine. Reuters adds that “the Treatment Referral Routing Service, 800-662-HELP provides 24-hour free and confidential treatment referral and information in English and Spanish.”
HealthDay (1/14, Reinberg) reports the researchers compared media mentions of the addiction helpline following the “suspected heroin overdose” of Demi Lovato in July to media mentions of the suicide helpline following the death of Anthony Bourdain the month before.
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— “U.S. substance abuse helpline largely unknown, “Linda Carroll, Reuters, January 14, 2019