Opioids Archives

Thursday, June 29, 2023

Medication-Assisted Treatment: Methadone Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)

Methadone was the first FDA-approved medication for treatment for opioid use disorder. The model created in 1964 – almost 60 years ago – is the template and gold-standard for...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Suboxone Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Suboxone is one of two medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) approved by the FDA for use outside of methadone clinics. Treatment experts and patients alike...
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Thursday, June 22, 2023

The Evidence Supporting Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

We recently published an article here on our blog called “The Opioid Crisis in the United States: Update on Settlements with Opioid Manufacturers, Distributors, and Retailers.” In that article,...
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Thursday, May 18, 2023

Unintended Consequences: Opioid Crisis Led to Prescription Monitoring, But Did It Help?

The overdose crisis in the United States – also called the opioid crisis – began in the late 1990s. Since then, over a million people have lost their lives...
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Thursday, May 11, 2023

Does Increasing Access to Buprenorphine Increase Risk of Overdose?

Evidence shows that buprenorphine treatment in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs improves outcomes for people with opioid use disorder (OUD). A recent study published in the Journal of the American...
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Thursday, May 4, 2023

National Harm Reduction Research Effort Could Reduce Overdose Deaths

In the United States, the drug overdose crisis is almost two and a half decades old. Also known as the opioid crisis, most experts place the beginning of this...
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Monday, April 24, 2023

Research Report: Scientists Identify Brain Circuit Associated With Heroin and Cocaine Use Disorder

One thing many people miss about medical research is that most of our medications, procedures, and modes of treatment pass through a rigorous experimental stage. In some cases, the...
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Friday, April 21, 2023

Emerging National Security Threat: Xylazine Laced With Fentanyl Exacerbates Opioid Crisis

In November 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wrote a letter to stakeholders to describe a new drug that’s causing significant health risks in the U.S. The letter...
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Monday, April 10, 2023

Promising New Heroin Overdose Treatment Using Antibodies

Treatment for people with substance use disorder (SUD) has changed dramatically over the past fifty years. The same is true for people who experienced heroin or opioid overdose. In...
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Monday, April 3, 2023

Buprenorphine Treatment Associated With Decreased Risk of Fatal Overdose

If you’ve never heard of buprenorphine or buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), we’re not surprised – but we are concerned. A report published by the Centers for...
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