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Medication-Assisted Therapies — Tackling the Opioid-Overdose Epidemic
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The Department of Health and Human Services is working to reduce opioid abuse while ensuring appropriate access to opioids, one key element of the solution is greater use of medication-assisted therapies for addiction.Abstract:
Deeming prescription-opioid overdoses an epidemic, the Department of Health and Human Services is working to reduce opioid abuse while ensuring appropriate access to opioids. One key element of the solution is greater use of medication-assisted therapies for addiction.read more
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Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century.
Anne Case,Angus Deaton +1 more
TL;DR: A marked increase in the all-cause mortality of middle-aged white non-Hispanic men and women in the United States between 1999 and 2013 reversed decades of progress in mortality and was unique to the United United States; no other rich country saw a similar turnaround.
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Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths--United States, 2000-2014
TL;DR: Findings indicate that the opioid overdose epidemic is worsening and there is a need for continued action to prevent opioid abuse, dependence, and death, improve treatment capacity for opioid use disorders, and reduce the supply of illicit opioids, particularly heroin and illicit fentanyl.
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The Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis: A Public Health Approach to an Epidemic of Addiction
Andrew Kolodny,David T. Courtwright,Catherine S. Hwang,Peter Kreiner,John L. Eadie,Thomas W. Clark,G. Caleb Alexander +6 more
TL;DR: The scope of this public health crisis, its historical context, contributing factors, and lines of evidence indicating the role of addiction in exacerbating morbidity and mortality, are described, and a framework for interventions to address the epidemic of opioid addiction is provided.
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Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths—United States, 2000–2014
TL;DR: Findings indicate that the opioid overdose epidemic is worsening and there is a need for continued action to prevent opioid abuse, dependence, and death, improve treatment capacity for opioid use disorders, and reduce the supply of illicit opioids, particularly heroin and illicit fentanyl.
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Relationship between Nonmedical Prescription-Opioid Use and Heroin Use
TL;DR: A large fraction of heroin users now report that they formerly used prescription opioids nonmedically, a finding that has led to restrictions on opioid prescribing, but only a small fraction of prescription-opioid users move on to heroin use.
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TL;DR: Implementing policies that support evidence-based medication treatment of opiate dependence may decrease heroin overdose deaths, as increased access to opioid agonist treatment was associated with a reduction in heroin overdoses.
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Adoption and implementation of medications in addiction treatment programs.
TL;DR: It is revealed that both adoption and implementation of pharmacotherapies to treat addiction remains modest and future research should examine the different types of barriers to implementation, such as physician decision making, patient preferences, and system-level barriers stemming from financing and public policy.
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Responses of State Medicaid Programs to Buprenorphine Diversion: Doing More Harm Than Good?
Robin E. Clark,Jeffrey D. Baxter +1 more
TL;DR: Buprenorphine carries a lower risk of sedation and overdose; it can more safely be dispensed for unsupervised use at home, and the requirement for on-site dosing creates challenges for work and family life.