Opioid maintenance treatment is the first-line treatment in opioid dependence reducing psychiatric and somatic morbidity. Besides the full opioid agonist methadone being the gold standard for treatment, the partial agonist buprenorphine is licenced for treatment of opioid dependence. Buprenorphine differs ...
We created Ophelia to help people who want to manage their opioid dependence or addiction and get access to evidence-based treatment. Get started with us today.
We created Ophelia to help people who want to manage their opioid dependence or addiction and get access to evidence-based treatment. Get started with us today.
In Reply. 鈥擠r Wiggs has used our article comparing buprenorphine with methadone as a launching pad for his view that treatment for opioid dependence is "an expensive illusion" and that the public would be better served if the money now devoted to treatment were spent instead on prison beds...
Pharmacological treatment of opioid dependence : Is there any difference in efficacy between buprenorphine and methadone treatment?Pharmacological treatment of opioid dependence : Is there any difference in efficacy between buprenorphine and methadone trea...
The Treatment of Opioid Dependenceage-based correlatesinmatessubstance abuseNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1080/10550490701375228Mark J. AlbaneseMark J. AlbaneseJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.American Journal on Addictions
Welcome to the South Carolina Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence. We are an organization made up of medication-assisted treatment facilities that strive to provide exemplary and effective treatment for opioid use disorder and to educate the community on the disease of addictions and op...
A response from the authors of the article "Emergency department initiated buprenorphine/naloxone treatment for opioid dependence: A randomized clinical trial" which was published in a previous issue is presented.JAMA: Journal of the American Medical AssociationFiellin, David A.O'Connor, Pat...
Effects of Compliance on Outcome Independent of Pharmacological Efficacy in the Treatment of Opioid Dependence: A Post Hoc Regression Analysisadherence to drug regimenetrafon vs methadone effectivenessmale opioid dependent clientsIn this double-blind controlled study, 143 opioid-dependent male subjects were...
Findings In this systematic review and meta-analysis, risk of all-cause, overdose, suicide, alcohol-related, cancer, and cardiovascular-related mortality was significantly lower for people with opioid dependence during OAT. Meaning These findings suggest that increasing access to OAT and retention in ...