Cannabis use and binge eating among young adults: The role of depressive symptoms.

Objective: Understanding the association between cannabis use and binge eating is of interest amidst growing global cannabis legalization. While preliminary research suggests a link between cannabis use and binge eating, population-based data among young adults, both female and male, are lacking. Given that depressive symptoms can act as an important precipitant of both cannabis use and binge eating, exploring the role of depressive symptoms is essential.

Trends in Opioid Use Disorder in the Veterans Health Administration, 2005-2022.

Importance: Given the personal and social burdens of opioid use disorder (OUD), understanding time trends in OUD prevalence in large patient populations is key to planning prevention and treatment services.

Objective: To examine trends in the prevalence of OUD from 2005 to 2022 overall and by age, sex, and race and ethnicity.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This serial cross-sectional study included national Veterans Health Administration (VHA) electronic medical record data from the VHA Corporate Data Warehouse.

Mortality Risks of US Healthcare Workers.

Introduction: Physicians and nurses have lower annual mortality rates than the general population. One explanation for the low mortality rates of these healthcare workers emphasizes their specialized medical knowledge and greater access to healthcare while a second emphasizes their generally higher level of education. We evaluated the extent to which general educational level accounts for the lower all-cause mortality rates of US healthcare than non-healthcare workers.

Changes in diet quality across life transitions from adolescence to early adulthood: a latent growth analysis.

Background: Adolescence to early adulthood is a period of multiple life transitions. These transitions, along with changing resources and contexts, could contribute to significant changes in diet, which may persist into later adulthood.

Objectives: We investigated diet quality trajectories from age 15 to 31 y and changes in diet quality associated with life transitions by sex.

Medicaid expansion and medications to treat opioid use disorder in outpatient specialty care from 2010 to 2020.

Introduction: Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) are considered the first line treatment for opioid use disorder. As states expanded Medicaid beginning in 2014 under the Affordable Care Act, policymakers and public health officials were interested in the potential for expansion to increase access to MOUD. This study examined whether there were changes in MOUD use within outpatient admissions to specialty treatment facilities in Medicaid expansion states beyond the initial expansion period.

Feasibility and Acceptability of Providing Cognitive Remediation in a Large USA System of Coordinated Specialty Care for Early Psychosis.

Introduction: Multinational treatment guidelines support providing cognitive remediation to people recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, but the feasibility of implementing the treatment on a large scale is less well understood.

Methods: This study took place between 2019 and 2023 at 14 clinics within a large network of programs providing early intervention services to people aged 16-30 experiencing nonaffective psychosis. Clinics were randomly assigned to deliver cognitive remediation as twice-weekly clinician-led groups (N = 5), cognitive remediation as once-weekly clinician-led groups with homework (N = 6), or treatment as usual (N = 3).

Parental Binge Eating and Child Binge Eating and Weight-Control Behaviors: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Findings From the EAT 2010-2018 Study.

Objective: In cross-sectional and retrospective research, parental binge eating is associated with their children's eating psychopathology. The current study extended the evidence by cross-sectionally and longitudinally examining the relation between parental binge eating and binge eating and weight-control behaviors in the next generation of their adolescent children and young adult children in a population-based sample.

Methods: Adolescents (Time 1: M = 14.

Examining the Impact of the Innovative Opioid Court Model on Treatment Access and Court Outcomes for Court Participants.

Objective: The opioid intervention court (OIC) is an innovative, pre-plea treatment court to facilitate rapid linkage to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) for people at risk of overdose. This study compares participants in OIC and participants with opioid use problems in a traditional drug treatment court model on (i) initiation for any substance use (SU) treatment, (ii) initiation of MOUD, (iii) number of days to MOUD initiation, and (iv) retention in the OIC program/retention on MOUD.

Methods: We used administrative court records from n = 389 OIC and n = 229 drug court participants in 2 counties in New York State.

Assessing harmonized intelligence measures in a multinational study.

Studies examining the neurocognitive and circuit-based etiology of psychiatric illness are moving toward inclusive, global designs. A potential confounding effect of these associations is general intelligence; however, an internationally validated, harmonized intelligence quotient (IQ) measure is not available. We describe the procedures used to measure IQ across a five-site, multinational study and demonstrate the harmonized measure's cross-site validity.

The role of income and emotional engagement in the efficacy of a brief help-seeking video intervention for essential workers.

Background: Recently we showed that a brief video-based intervention can improve openness to help-seeking and decrease treatment-related stigma among essential workers, particularly for female and Black individuals viewing demographically matched protagonists. The current randomized controlled trial explored two additional factors which may enhance the efficacy of this intervention: income level, known to be associated with help-seeking, and emotional engagement, which may enhance a person's ability to engage with the intervention. We hypothesized that income level and emotional engagement would correlate with changes in openness to help-seeking ("openness") and stigma.

Childhood sexual abuse, adult sexual assault, revictimization, and coping among sexual minority women.

Background: Compared with heterosexual women, sexual minority women experience higher rates and greater severity of sexual victimization. Little is known about how childhood sexual abuse (CSA), adult sexual assault (ASA), and revictimization impact coping in this population. Few studies have examined the effects of recency, developmental stage, and revictimization on coping.

Mental Health Impairment and Outpatient Mental Health Care of US Children and Adolescents.

Importance: Despite a federal declaration of a national child and adolescent mental health crisis in 2021, little is known about recent national trends in mental health impairment and outpatient mental health treatment of US children and adolescents.

Objective: To characterize trends in mental health impairment and outpatient mental health care among US children and adolescents from 2019 to 2021 across demographic groups and levels of impairment.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Survey study with a repeated cross-sectional analysis of mental health impairment and outpatient mental health care use among youth (ages 6-17 years) within the 2019 and 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys, nationally representative surveys of US households.

Behavioural disorders after prenatal exposure to anaesthesia for maternal surgery.

Background: The association between prenatal exposure to general anaesthesia for maternal surgery during pregnancy and subsequent risk of disruptive or internalising behavioural disorder diagnosis in the child has not been well-defined.

Methods: A nationwide sample of pregnant women linked to their liveborn infants was evaluated using the Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX, 1999-2013). Multivariate matching was used to match each child prenatally exposed to general anaesthesia owing to maternal appendectomy or cholecystectomy during pregnancy with five unexposed children.

Changes in diet quality across life transitions from adolescence to early adulthood: a latent growth analysis.

Background: Adolescence to early adulthood is a period of multiple education-, employment- and family-related life transitions. Changing resources and food environments within the context of these transitions could contribute to significant changes in diet, which persist into later adulthood. This study investigated diet quality trajectories from age 15 to 31 years and changes in diet quality associated with life transitions, by sex.

When money and mental health problems pile up: The reciprocal relationship between income and psychological distress.

Background: Longitudinal studies suggest that socioeconomic status (SES) and mental health have a bidirectional relationship such that SES declines lead to a deterioration of mental health (), while worsening mental health leads to SES declines (). However, the dynamic relationship between income and psychological distress has not been sufficiently studied.

Methods: We use cross-lagged panel models with unit fixed effects (FE-CLPM) and data from a five-wave representative panel (n = 3103) of working-age (18-64) New York City adults.

Trends in Psychological Distress and Outpatient Mental Health Care of Adults During the COVID-19 Era.

Background: In addition to the physical disease burden of the COVID-19 pandemic, concern exists over its adverse mental health effects.

Objective: To characterize trends in psychological distress and outpatient mental health care among U.S.