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Posted 10/23/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
This article offers data regarding offering buprenorphine treatment at a public hospital primary care setting using a home, unobserved induction protocol.
Posted 10/23/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
The goal of this module is to train providers to initiate patients on buprenorphine safely and effectively.
Posted 12/9/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
Emergency Department initiated buprenorphine. This guide includes an overview, list of protocols, tools, and assessments for providers.
Posted 12/9/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
Detoxification is the process of taking a person off an opioid on which he or she is physically dependent. The detoxification process can be fast or slow. This article describes the advantages and disadvantages of medically supervised withdrawal programs.
Posted 1/20/2021 (updated 4/4/2024)
… (PWUD) in the U.S. experience disproportionate adverse health outcomes and mortality as compared with the population … 2016; Reisinger, Pratt, Shoenborn, & Druss, 2017). Similar health outcomes have been reported elsewhere, for example in … are intensified by the overdose pandemic, epidemic rates of HIV, hepatitis A and C, skin and soft tissue infections …
Posted 5/17/2021 (updated 4/10/2024)
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is the use of medications, combined with counseling, to treat substance use disorders. Research has proven the effectiveness of MAT and addiction treatment experts endorse it, but a variety of barriers have prevented the widespread use of MAT. These include a lack of financing for medication, insufficient organizational infrastructure to deliver medication, state and county funding and regulatory obstacles, physician training and certification, staff and client resistance, and community attitudes.