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Medication for Opioid Use Disorder After Nonfatal Opioid Overdose and Association With Mortality

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This study sought to determine whether treatment with MOUD, including receipt of MMT, buprenorphine, or naltrexone, was associated with reduced risk for all-cause and opioid-related mortality.
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Patients who survive an opioid overdose are at increased risk for subsequent nonfatal and fatal events. This study evaluated overdose survivors to determine whether use of medications for opioid us...

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Comparative Effectiveness of Different Treatment Pathways for Opioid Use Disorder

TL;DR: Treatment with buprenorphine or methadone was associated with reductions in overdose and serious opioid-related acute care use compared with other treatments, and strategies to address the underuse of MOUD are needed.
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Prevention and Treatment of Opioid Misuse and Addiction: A Review.

TL;DR: The factors that triggered the opioids crisis and its further evolution are analyzed, along with the interventions to manage and prevent opioid use disorder (OUD), which are fundamental for curtailing the opioid crisis.
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Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives

TL;DR: In this article, the evidence base on medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD) is examined and the available evidence on the range of parameters and circumstances in which MAT can be effectively delivered and identifies additional research needed.
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Opioid use disorder.

TL;DR: The risk factors of opioid use disorder, together with its epidemiology, mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment, are discussed, including community preventive strategies, harm reduction interventions to reduce adverse sequelae from ongoing use and mutual aid groups.
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Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Introducing the E-Value

TL;DR: An important approach to evaluating evidence for causation in the face of unmeasured confounding is sensitivity analysis (or bias analysis), and it is proposed that observational studies start reporting the E-value, a new measure related to evidence for causality.
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Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths - United States, 2010-2015.

TL;DR: In an effort to target prevention strategies to address the rapidly changing epidemic, CDC examined overall drug overdose death rates during 2010-2015 and opioid overdosedeath rates during 2014-2015 by subcategories (natural/semisynthetic opioids, methadone, heroin, and synthetic opioids other than methad one).
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Medication-Assisted Therapies — Tackling the Opioid-Overdose Epidemic

TL;DR: 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.
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Emergency Department–Initiated Buprenorphine/Naloxone Treatment for Opioid Dependence: A Randomized Clinical Trial

TL;DR: Among opioid-dependent patients, ED-initiated buprenorphine treatment vs brief intervention and referral significantly increased engagement in addiction treatment, reduced self-reported illicit opioid use, and decreased use of inpatient addiction treatment services but did not significantly decrease the rates of urine samples that tested positive for opioids or of HIV risk.
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