Source: Onuoha, E. N., Leff, J. A., Schackman, B. R., McCollister, K. E., Polsky, D., & Murphy, S. M. (2021). Economic evaluations of pharmacologic treatment for opioid use disorder: a systematic literature review. Value in Health, 24(7), 1068-1083. Highlights There is new evidence on buprenorphine...

Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Methadone Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: Improving Access through Regulatory and Legal Change: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26635. Methadone is a Food and Drug...

Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Progress of Four Programs from the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26060. Description Substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder are...

As the opioid epidemic continues to cause suffering for millions of Americans, the United States government is responding in many different ways. In 2016, lawmakers passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which included several grant programs to help reduce opioid-related harm and...

Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Opportunities to Improve Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Services: Integrating Responses to a Dual Epidemic. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25626. Description Opioid use and...

Source: Gangal NS, Hincapie AL, Jandarov R, et al. Association Between a State Law Allowing Pharmacists to Dispense Naloxone Without a Prescription and Naloxone Dispensing Rates. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(1):e1920310. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.20310 Key Points Question Is an Ohio law allowing...

Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Opportunities to Improve Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Services: Integrating Responses to a Dual Epidemic. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25626. Opioid use and infectious...

The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) and the National Sheriffs’ Association present a resource to support jail administrators in providing effective treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder and helping to halt the opioid epidemic in the United States. Jails are on...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The maker of OxyContin and the company’s controlling family agreed Tuesday to pay a groundbreaking $270 million to Oklahoma to settle allegations they helped create the nation’s deadly opioid crisis with their aggressive marketing of the powerful painkiller.

Medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) save lives. Yet most people with OUD in the United States receive no treatment at all, and only a fraction of those who do receive medications for OUD. With support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...

By Nina Feldman January 23, 2019 "...due to federal prescribing limits, the department has found itself in a tough position: It has more people who need the drug than doctors who can prescribe it."

In a paper published on May 2017, researchers Ruixuan Jiang, Inyoung Lee, Todd A. Lee, and A. Simon Pickard found that the cost of heroin use disorder was estimated to be $51.2 billion in 2015 US dollars ($50,799 per heroin user). Free full text is available at: https://www.issup.net/knowledge-share...

The American Psychiatric Association recently issued a podcast "Expanding Access to Naloxone" for Providers’ Clinical Support System (PCSS). Alexander Walley, MD, MSc, of Boston University School of Medicine, explains how naloxone is playing a pivotal role in addressing the opioid use disorder (OUD)...

Abstract The opioid epidemic in America and worldwide is growing leading to an increase in opioid addiction ultimately ending in overdose and death. The specific aim of this paper is to evaluate the different treatment methods that aid with opioid addiction. The main medicated-assisted treatments...