Shared Decision-Making Tool Helps Pregnant Women With Opioid Use Disorder
Investigators aimed to determine the number of women who came to a treatment decision using the shared decision-making tool.
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Direct-to-Doctor Payments May Increase Opioid Prescribing
Physicians who receive direct pharmaceutical payments for opioid prescribing prescribe more opioids, especially hydrocodone and oxycodone.
An Evidence-Based Road Map to Navigating the Opioid Epidemic
This rise in prescribing of prescription opioids in the last 2 decades of the 20th century occurred at a time during which medical professionals were urged to resort to prescription opioids to manage untreated and chronic noncancer pain.
Disordered Social Media Use in Young Adults Fits the Pattern of Behavioral Addiction
Investigators sought to determine whether disordered social media use was associated with similar personality traits as risk alcohol use.
Medication Treatment for Substance Abuse Increased in Facilities
From 2007 to 2016, there was an increase in the proportion of substance use treatment facilities offering medication treatment.
Benzodiazepine, Opioid Co-Usage Increased in the United States
Concurrent use of benzodiazepine receptor modulators and opioids and of nonselective and selective benzodiazepine receptor modulators increased from 1999-2000 to 2013-2014.
Benzodiazepines, if Prescribed, May Not Affect Methadone Treatment Retention
The use of benzodiazepine, only if prescribed, may not affect retention of methadone medication-assisted treatment.
Drug Overdose Death Rate Increasing Among Middle-Aged Women
From 1999 to 2017, the drug overdose death rate increased 260 percent among women aged 30 to 64 years.
Extended-Release Naltrexone Improves Psychiatric Disorders During Addiction Therapy
Changes in anxiety, depression, or insomnia symptoms were examined in patients with opioid use disorder taking extended-release naltrexone or buprenorphine-naloxone.
Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use Motivated by Pain Relief in Adolescence Predicts Later SUD
A set of characteristics of nonmedical use of prescription opioids in adolescents may help identify youth at high risk for substance use disorder, including opioid misuse, in early midlife.
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