Giuliana Grossi

Among 2.5 million adults with opioid use disorder (OUD), only 36% received any substance use treatment, and only 22% received medications for OUD in a recent study.

The data provide promising results, yielding a smoking abstinence rate of 26.4% in the intervention group at 18 months.

"Our research is unique in its attempt to describe a high-need, high-cost patient population who might benefit from increased monitoring or intervention,"Ann Cameron, PhD, says.

An immune-mediated relationship between the brain and skin has been hypothesized in previous studies about psoriasis.