The purpose of this study was to examine 2017 US national and state variation in neonatal abstinence syndrome and maternal opioid-related diagnoses rates in 2017 and changes since 2010.
Access to primary care is limited for patients taking opioids for chronic pain, particularly for patients with histories suggestive of aberrant use of opioids.
A pain management regimen that uses mostly over-the-counter medication reduces opioid exposure in trauma patients while achieving similar levels of pain control.
The authors propose evaluating which aspects of previous policy and practices for OUD should resume and which aspects of current policy and practice exemptions should continue.
To learn more about the overlapping crises of the opioid epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic, Psychiatry Advisor interviewed pain specialist Paul J. Christo, MD, MBA, the Director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.