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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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Thursday, March 30, 2023

How to Find LGBTQ Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Fatal drug overdoses in the U.S. have more than quintupled since 1999. Data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows that in 1999, a total of 16,849 people...
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Monday, March 27, 2023

The Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment (MAT) Act: Will We Keep COVID-Era Changes?

In the late spring of 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic – before the rollout of the vaccines – the federal government, along with community, municipal, and...
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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Local, Accessible, Flexible: How the Pandemic Taught Us About Opioid Addiction Treatment and Reducing Overdose Risk

It’s now the spring of 2023. Three years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the U.S. and changed life for almost everyone in the country, including people seeking opioid...
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