Background: Recurrent opioid usage despite negative consequences is a hallmark of opioid use disorder. There are about 16 million people with an opioid use disorder worldwide, including over 2.1 million in the United States; annually, opioids cause over 120,000 deaths. When visit...
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...
Overview Symptoms Diagnosis What is opioid use disorder (OUD)?OUD is a medical condition that develops from long-term use or misuse of an opioid. You are not able to stop taking the opioid even though it causes physical or social problems. OUD may be use of an opioid such as heroin or...
Opioid use disorder (OUD) has become an urgent health problem. People with OUD often experience comorbid medical conditions. Systematical approaches to identifying co-occurring conditions of OUD can facilitate a deeper understanding of OUD mechanisms and
Figure 1. Overview of the System Dynamics Model of Nonmedical Opioid Use View LargeDownload Persons using opioids nonmedically are represented in the model in 1 of 3 compartments: nonmedical use of prescription opioids without opioid use disorder, prescription opioid use disorder, and illicit opioid...
Between 2012–2022 opioid-related overdose deaths in the United States, including Washington State, have risen dramatically. Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a complex, chronic, and criminalized illness with biological, environmental, and social causes. One-
Despite the large toll of opioid use disorder (OUD), genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of OUD to date have yielded few susceptibility loci. We performed a large-scale GWAS of OUD in individuals of European (EUR) and African (AFR) ancestry, optimizin
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