Medication treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) was associated with a significant reduction in mortality due to suicide, a retrospective cohort study in a population of military veterans has found. The association between medication treatment and reduced risk of suicide was strongest for ...
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To provide an accurate, representative picture of the availability of medication treatment for opioid use disorder in community outpatient mental health treatment facilities, RAND researchers surveyed 450 clinics from April to July 2023 to ask whether they provided such services. The sample included both...
Medication for opioid use disorder: a national survey of primary care physicians. Ann Intern Med. 2020;173(2):160-162. doi:10.7326/M19-3975 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 15. Mojtabai R, Mauro C, Wall MM, Barry CL, Olfson M. Medication treatment for opioid use...
Bicycle Health is the leading telehealth provider of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in the United States, offering an evidence-based clinical care model that includesFDA-approved Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT), access...
The Medicaid Expansion and the Uptake of Medication-assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: Evidence from the Rhode Island All-payer Claims Database, 2... This article uses the all-payer claims database for the state of Rhode Island to assess recent progress in the state toward the goal ...
In this way, stigma toward medications for opioid use disorder has become a pressing social justice issue. As one of the primary service providers for people with opioid use disorder, social workers should be at the forefront of efforts to destigmatize medication treatments. This endpage is a ca...
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) (HHS) proposes a rule to increase the highest patient limit for qualified physicians to treat opioid use disorder under section 303(g)(2) of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) from 100 to 200. The purpose of the...
Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) with FDA-approved methadone or buprenorphine has been shown to increase treatment retention, reduce opioid use and associated health and societal harms, and reduce opioid related overdose, and as such is considered the most effective treatment for OUD. The ...
Researchers at the University of Colorado College of Nursing at the Anschutz Medical Campus found that an 18-month pilot project that trained Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants to prescribe Medication for Opioid Use Disorders (MOUD) was successful in increasing availability and access of servic...