The DSM-5 de-contextualizes drug use. How addiction and heroin are constituted has political implications that will determine what types of services and programs will be set up. Treating a disorder, or a person
To diagnose opioid use disorder a doctor or psychologist will examine your current usage and medical history and might ask for a urine sample. They will ask about your pattern of opioid use over a 12-month period and measure it against a set of 11 criteria of addiction outlined in The Diag...
2.1.1. Inclusion criteria We used Covidence to manage and organize citations (Kellermeyer et al., 2018). Two reviewers independently screened titles and abstracts of the records retrieved in the search. Researchers selected records for full-text review if their abstract referenced drug use, unless...
In the past two decades, over-prescription of opioids for pain management has driven a steep increase in opioid use disorder (OUD) and death by overdose, exerting a dramatic toll on western countries. OUD is a chronic relapsing disease associated with a lifetime struggle to control drug consump...
usedisorderprescriptionIn the United States, availability of prescription opioids has decreased in recent years. Whether there have been corresponding changes in the likelihood of persons with prescription opioid use disorder (POUD) to engage in illegal behaviors related to drug use remains unknown. We...
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User-centred clinical decision support to implement emergency department-initiated buprenorphine for opioid use disorder: protocol for the pragmatic group randomised EMBED trial. BMJ Open. 2019;9(5):e028488. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028488PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 22. Melnick ER, Nath ...
Incarcerated populations experience an elevated prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD). Federal correctional institutions in Canada have increasingly treated OUD among correctional populations via opioid agonist treatment (OAT) – an evidence based pharmacotherapy that works to reduce drug use and related ...
Medical health professionals have learned that opioid exposure as part of a pain treatment regimen for a wisdom tooth or a fracture can lead to a lifelong opioid use disorder. Genetic researchers wonder whether some people might have genetically fragile opioid systems that may implode when exposed ...
This cross-sectional study of respondents to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health evaluates rates of medication for opioid use disorder receipt