Rob Siebers

Article July 7, 2026 Every year, millions of hospital stays involve people who use alcohol or drugs. In some cases, drug or alcohol use is the immediate reason for their hospitalization; in other cases, substance use is one of multiple contributing medical causes. Whatever their principal diagnosis, patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) urgently need substance use care.

Article August 28, 2025 Despite a recent decline in drug overdose deaths in the U.S., fatalities involving multiple substances—known as polysubstance overdoses—have been on the rise. In 2022, more than half of the 69,893 people in the U.S. who died from a synthetic opioid overdose such as fentanyl also had a stimulant in their system, while alcohol-involved opioid overdose deaths increased by 40.8% between 2019 and 2020.