A US study of more than a million Medicaid enrollees newly diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD), finds most—nearly seven ...

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

Despite all this, tens of thousands of people are still dying annually. Estimates suggest that the number of opioid overdose deaths declined in 2023, but just barely, with more than 80,000 US lives ...

Carlos Santiago, an ambassador and driver for the Greater Hartford Harm Reduction Coalition (now known as the Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance), works at a mobile overdose prevention event in 2022 ...

A US study of more than a million Medicaid enrollees, newly diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD), finds most – nearly seven in 10 – are not ...

NIH-funded study demonstrates life-saving potential of providing medications for opioid use disorder in carceral settings A study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) finds that ...

Those who kept taking buprenorphine as prescribed for at least a year were much less likely to suffer an overdose or require ...

Patients who come to the emergency department following an opioid overdose have a 1-year mortality rate of about 5%. In this study, 17.8% of patients received a referral for outpatient treatment, 42.4 ...

Black patients are less likely to receive outpatient OUD treatment referrals post-ED visit for opioid overdose compared to White patients. Hospital admissions increase the likelihood of receiving ...

Hundreds of people are on a waitlist for opioid addiction treatment in Los Angeles County jails as the state presses the ...

New research from Mass General Brigham finds that adolescents and young adults who stayed on the medication buprenorphine for ...

We can’t solve what we can’t measure, so let’s use opioid abatement funds to help. Comprehensive toxicology would let us ...