The Brief Addiction Science Information Source (BASIS)

STASH, Vol. 18(4) - Health care providers report improved knowledge and comfortability working with people who inject drugs as a result of the Six Moments training

This week, STASH reviews a study by Leah Harvey and colleagues that identified health care providers' knowledge of and comfortability with harm reduction strategies aimed at reducing risk of infection among people who inject drugs. Read more →

STASH, Vol. 18(3) – Community perspectives on supervised consumption sites for people who use opioids

This week, STASH reviews a study by Jirka Taylor and colleagues that examined community attitudes about implementing supervised consumption sites for people who use opioids in four U.S. counties with high rates of opioid overdose deaths. Read more →

STASH, Vol. 18(2) - Pre-release Medicaid enrollment assistance improves healthcare access

This week, STASH reviews a study by Marguerite E. Burns and colleagues that evaluated prison-based Medicaid enrollment assistance and post-prison release healthcare use among adults with a history of substance use in Wisconsin. Read more →

STASH, Vol. 18(1) - Cannabis use to cope with race-related stress among incarcerated African American men

This week, STASH reviews a study by Jardin Dogan and colleagues that examined the association between race-related stress and cannabis use among incarcerated African American men. Read more →

STASH, Vol. 17(13) - Internet gaming: A new problem in the pandemic?

This week, STASH reviews a study by Taika Oka and colleagues on the impact of COVID-19 on the prevalence and risk factors of probable Internet Gaming Disorder and Problematic Internet Use. Read more →

STASH, Vol. 17(12) - Tribal community members’ views of substance use disorder relapse

This week, STASH reviews a study by Monica C. Skewes and colleagues that examined perspectives and priorities regarding substance use disorder relapse on an American Indian reservation. Read more →

STASH, Vol. 17(11) – Recovery networks and their influence on abstinence among women in early recovery from a substance use disorder

This week, STASH reviews a study by Meredith W. Francis that investigated differences in the recovery networks of women in treatment for a substance use disorder and whether these impact abstinence outcomes. Read more →

STASH, Vol. 17(10) - Not just a virus: How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted behavioral causes of death in the United States

This week, as part of our Special Series on Managing Addiction during COVID-19, STASH reviews a study by Jeremy Faust and colleagues that investigated whether the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the number of deaths due to drug overdose, homicide, unintentional injury, motor vehicle crash, and suicide in the United States. Read more →

STASH, Vol. 17(9) - The price of competition: How legalizing cannabis affects the street price of drugs

This week, STASH reviews a study by Angélica Meinhofer and Adrian Rubli that examined how legalizing recreational cannabis has affected the prices of illegal drugs. Read more →

STASH, Vol. 17(8) – Accurate knowledge of a Good Samaritan law among people who use drugs

This week, STASH reviews a study by Soroush Moallef and colleagues that evaluated the prevalence of and factors associated with accurate knowledge of Good Samaritan laws among people who use illicit drugs in Vancouver, British Columbia. Read more →