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Courtney Breen
Researcher at National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
Publications - 60
Citations - 4553
Courtney Breen is an academic researcher from National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Methadone. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 58 publications receiving 4075 citations. Previous affiliations of Courtney Breen include University of New South Wales.
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Buprenorphine maintenance versus placebo or methadone maintenance for opioid dependence
TL;DR: Buprenorphine maintenance compared to placebo and to methadone maintenance in the management of opioid dependence, including its ability to retain people in treatment, suppress illicit drug use, reduce criminal activity, and mortality is evaluated.
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Methadone maintenance therapy versus no opioid replacement therapy for opioid dependence
TL;DR: Methadone is an effective maintenance therapy intervention for the treatment of heroin dependence as it retains patients in treatment and decreases heroin use better than treatments that do not utilise opioid replacement therapy, and does not show a statistically significant superior effect on criminal activity.
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Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and High School Performance
Ju Lee Oei,Edward Melhuish,Edward Melhuish,Hannah Uebel,Nadin Azzam,Courtney Breen,Lucinda Burns,Lisa Hilder,Barbara Bajuk,Mohamed E Abdel-Latif,Mohamed E Abdel-Latif,Meredith Ward,John M Feller,Janet Falconer,Sarah Clews,John Eastwood,Annie Li,Ian M. R Wright,Ian M. R Wright +18 more
TL;DR: A neonatal diagnostic code of NAS is strongly associated with poor and deteriorating school performance and parents must be identified early and provided with support to minimize the consequences of poor educational outcomes.
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Reasons for Rehospitalization in Children Who Had Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Hannah Uebel,Ian M. R Wright,Lucy Burns,Lisa Hilder,Barbara Bajuk,Courtney Breen,Mohamed E Abdel-Latif,John M Feller,Janet Falconer,Sarah Clews,John Eastwood,Ju Lee Oei +11 more
TL;DR: Children with NAS are more likely to be rehospitalized during childhood for maltreatment, trauma, and mental and behavioral disorders even after accounting for prematurity, and the critical need for continued support after resolution of NAS is emphasized.
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Trends in morphine prescriptions, illicit morphine use and associated harms among regular injecting drug users in Australia
Louisa Degenhardt,Emma Black,Courtney Breen,Raimondo Bruno,Stuart A. Kinner,Amanda Roxburgh,Craig Lindsay Fry,Rebecca Jenkinson,Jeff Ward,James Fetherston,J Weekley,Jane Fischer +11 more
TL;DR: Examination of population trends in morphine prescriptions in Australia contrasts them with findings from annual surveys with regular injecting drug users (IDU), and morphine injection appears to be associated with polydrug use, and with it, a range of problems related to drug injection.