Few patients with opioid toxicity receive opioid agonist therapy (OAT), data suggest. In a retrospective study that examined about 21,000 hospital visits related to opioid use disorder (OUD) in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Grebely added: “However, to our knowledge, no study has evaluated whether opioid agonist therapy is associated ...

Opioid agonist therapy (OAT) is highly effective at reducing illness and deaths in patients with OUD. Using data from ICES, researchers looked at trends in OAT initiation rates for 20 702 emergency ...

November 7, 2008 — Extended therapy with buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone, Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals) substantially improves outcomes in opioid-addicted youth and might offer clinicians a new, ...

(HealthDay News) — For young adult injection drug users, maintenance opioid agonist therapy is associated with lower incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, according to a study published ...

A new global review has found that receiving Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) is associated with lower risk of multiple causes of death among people with opioid dependence. The review found that people ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An increase in take-home doses of opioid agonist therapy early in the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with ...

Young caucasian female addict preparing heroin dose. Researchers studied the impact of current opioid agonist therapy on initiation of chronic hepatitis C virus treatment among a population of ...

This article evaluates the immediate and long-term efficacy of a group multidisciplinary program for chronic opioid analgesic therapy cessation in the setting of chronic, noncancer pain. Objectives: ...

Opioid-related overdose is now a leading cause of accidental death in the United States and Canada. A study published December 1 st in the open access journal PLOS Medicine by Mary Clare Kennedy at ...

Opioid-related overdose is now a leading cause of accidental death in the United States and Canada. A study suggests discontinuing prescribed opioids was associated with increased overdose risk.

In the week following any hospital visit for an overdose, only 1 in 18 people with opioid use disorder begin a treatment known to be highly effective in reducing illness and deaths, according to new ...