Psychiatry Advisor (9/19, Rans) reports, a study suggests “linkage to an office‐based buprenorphine treatment program following discharge from a short-term managed detoxification program was associated with reduced rates of illicit opioid use in patients with opioid use disorder.” The findings from the randomized trial published in Addiction showed “that patients in the short-term detoxification program had significantly reduced rates of illicit opioid use at follow-up on day 12,” 35, 95, and 185.

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— “Post-Detoxification Primary Care Treatment Linked to Reduced Illicit Opioid Use, “Caleb Rans, Psychiatry Advisor, September 19, 2019

Reuters (9/18, Rapaport) reports, “Treating kids’ behavior problems might have the additional benefit of reducing their risk of insomnia as adults,” researchers concluded after following “8,050 people over more than four decades, assessing behavior problems at ages 5, 10 and 16, then administering sleep surveys when participants were 42 years old.” The study revealed that children “with severe behavior issues were 39 percent more likely to have insomnia by the time they were adults than children who had normal behavior.” The findings were published online in JAMA Network Open.

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— “Childhood behavior problems linked to insomnia in adulthood, “Lisa Rapaport, Reuter, September 18, 2019

Medscape (9/18, Brauser, Subscription Publication) reports, “Parental incarceration is associated with a significantly increased risk of mental illness in offspring that can start in childhood and extend into adulthood,” research indicated. In the study, which involved “more than 1400 participants,” investigators found that “children of incarcerated parents were twice as likely to have a childhood diagnosis of depression,” attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, “and conduct disorder compared with their counterparts whose parents did not serve jail time.” The findings were published online Aug. 23 in JAMA Network Open.

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— Medscape (requires login and subscription)

Psychiatric News (9/17) reports that “obesity treatment in youth is not associated with an increased risk of depression or anxiety; rather, the analysis points to the mental health benefits of such programs for this population.” The findings of the 44-study meta-analysis were published online Sept. 16 in JAMA Pediatrics.

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— “Meta-Analysis Highlights Potential Mental Health Benefits of Obesity Treatment for Youth, Psychiatric News, September 17, 2019

HealthDay (9/17, Preidt) reports a study of over 2,000 women who underwent hysterectomies but did not undergo removal of the ovaries “found they had about a 7% increased risk of depression and a 5% increased risk of anxiety over 30 years.” Women who were between 18 and 35 at the time of the procedure “had the highest (12%) risk of depression, according to the study,” published in Menopause.

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— “Hysterectomy Tied to Depression, Anxiety, “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, September 17, 2019