Take-home methadone at hospital discharge can be a critical turning point in opioid recovery

For patients recovering from opioid use disorder, particularly from drugs like fentanyl or heroin, the days immediately ...

Research reveals gaps in tracking opioid use among older adults in Medicare post-acute care

A new research letter published in JAMA Health Forum highlights major gaps in how opioid use is tracked among older adults ...
JSTOR Daily

A Mixed-Methods Comparison of a National and State Opioid Overdose Surveillance Definition

Vol. 136, No. 1S, Supplement 1: The Surveillance of Nonfatal and Fatal Drug Overdoses: Best Practices, Innovations, and Lessons Learned (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021), pp. 31S-39S (9 pages) Published By: ...
Reason

A Study of 'Problematic' Opioid Use Among Pain Patients Is Less Alarming Than It Seems

A new meta-analysis of 148 studies estimates that 9.3 percent of patients who receive opioid prescriptions for chronic pain experience "dependence" or "opioid use disorder" (D&OUD). The authors, Kyla ...
The Boston Globe

Fatal opioid overdoses tied to workplace injuries, state study finds

Working-age residents who died between 2011 and 2020 in Massachusetts were 35 percent more likely to have suffered fatal opioid-related overdoses if they had been hurt previously on the job, according ...
The Boston Globe

Opioid deaths in Boston rose last year despite a statewide decline

Amid the encouraging decline in opioid-related deaths across Massachusetts in 2023, there was one significant exception: the City of Boston, which recorded the highest number of deaths in seven years, ...
Medscape

Opioids May Be Overused in Acute Treatment of Migraine

Patients with chronic migraine (CM) and patients with medication overuse headache (MOH) tend to overutilize acute pain medications and underutilize preventive medications, compared with patients with ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Making Narcan affordable is critical to fighting opioid epidemic

To the editor: Naloxone, the generic name for Narcan, can reverse opioid overdoses in a matter of minutes (“Newsom makes $24 generic Narcan available to all Californians,” April 21). This is a timely ...