Few patients with opioid toxicity receive opioid agonist therapy (OAT), data suggest. In a retrospective study that examined about 21,000 hospital visits related to opioid use disorder (OUD) in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Grebely added: “However, to our knowledge, no study has evaluated whether opioid agonist therapy is associated ...

Cessation of opioid agonist therapy (OAT) significantly increases the risk of self-harm and death by suicide in the first month after stopping the treatment in new findings that highlight the need for ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Toronto's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Unity Health Toronto shows ...

A new global review has found that receiving Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) is associated with lower risk of multiple causes of death among people with opioid dependence. The review found that people ...

In the week following any hospital visit for an overdose, only 1 in 18 people with opioid use disorder begin a treatment known to be highly effective in reducing illness and deaths, according to new ...

While not without its disadvantages, narcotic replacement therapy has been shown to improve the success rate of those in recovery. Over the last several decades, the use of narcotics, or opioids, has ...

Young caucasian female addict preparing heroin dose. Researchers studied the impact of current opioid agonist therapy on initiation of chronic hepatitis C virus treatment among a population of ...

Opioid-related overdose is now a leading cause of accidental death in the United States and Canada. A study published December 1 st in the open access journal PLOS Medicine by Mary Clare Kennedy at ...

This article evaluates the immediate and long-term efficacy of a group multidisciplinary program for chronic opioid analgesic therapy cessation in the setting of chronic, noncancer pain. Objectives: ...

Opioid-related overdose is now a leading cause of accidental death in the United States and Canada. A study suggests discontinuing prescribed opioids was associated with increased overdose risk.