SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERSOpioid use disorder (OUD) is characterized by a lack of control in opioid use, resulting in psychological distress and deficits in interpersonal and social functioning. OUD is often associated with psychiatric comorbidities that increase the severity of the disorder. The ...
Opioid use disorder refers to a person's inability to control their use of the substance. Severe use disorders often go on to be classed as addictions.
Anyone can become dependent on drugs and struggle with opioid substance use. Opioid Use Disorder is not a moral failing and we need to remember that we can all change the conversation and decrease the stigma around drug use and opioid substance use. We must reduce the stigma to encourage peop...
Now called opioid use disorder (OUD), painkiller addiction was a term used for years along with terms like opioid abuse, drug abuse, drug dependence, and drug addiction. A national health crisis, 3 million people in the U.S. have OUD, or they’ve had it in the past. Your doctor will...
Genes play a role in both the individual differences in opioid metabolism and in the risk for developing an opioid use disorder (OUD). Like all substance use disorders (SUDs), OUD is a complex trait contributed to by multiple genetic and environmental factors. This chapter reviews the evidence...
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a national health crisis characterized by people who misuse or abuse painkiller, or opioid, medications typically prescribed to relieve pain from injury or chronic pain conditions.
Flanagan Balawajder and colleagues1 conducted a cross-sectional national survey of 1028 jails from June 2022 through April 2023 to assess the availability of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and, more specifically, medications for treatment of opioid use disorder (MOUD). In ...
Flanagan Balawajder and colleagues1 conducted a cross-sectional national survey of 1028 jails from June 2022 through April 2023 to assess the availability of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and, more specifically, medications for treatment of opioid use disorder (MOUD). In a...
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a chronic relapsing disorder that, whilst initially driven by activation of brain reward neurocircuits, increasingly engages anti-reward neurocircuits that drive adverse emotional states and relapse. However, successful recovery is possible with appropriate treatment, although...
Opioid use disorder Homelessness Substance use treatment MOUD Healthcare for the homeless 1. Introduction Drug overdose mortality in the United States has increased over the past decades, with recent surges driven primarily by overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids (Wilson et al., 2020). People...