Judith I. Tsui

TL;DR: Compared with an inpatient detoxification protocol, initiation of and linkage to buprenorphine treatment is an effective means for engaging medically hospitalized patients who are not seeking addiction treatment and reduces illicit opioid use 6 months after hospitalization.

TL;DR: High proportions of patients with HCV infections genotypes 1-4 in the Veterans Affairs national health care system achieved SVR12, approaching the results reported in clinical trials, especially in patients with genotype 1 infection.

TL;DR: Recent maintenance opioid agonist therapy was associated with a lower incidence of HCV infection in this cohort of young adult injection drug users and maintenance treatment with methadone or buprenorphine for opioid use disorders may be an important strategy to prevent the spread ofHCV infection among young injection drugusers.

TL;DR: The continued need for public health interventions that address the risk of overdose in this population in order to reduce premature deaths is highlighted, and the mortality rate was 10 times that of the general population.

TL;DR: It is found that patients who concurrently used methamphetamine were less likely to be retained in buprenorphine treatment compared to non-users, and for persons who were retained, however, methamphetamine use decreased over time.