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Posted 12/9/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
State policymakers are interested in learning about the most effective treatments to address OUD and avoid unintended consequences such as overdose events, mortality from overdose, and use of illicit and unregulated drugs. This article describes the lack of evidence surrounding the use of Medically Supervised Withdrawal as a standalone “treatment.”
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 10/23/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
The objective of this report was to perform a systematic review of the beneficial and harmful effects of BUP-ER 100 mg and 300 mg for the management of moderate-to-severe OUD in adult patients who have been inducted and clinically stabilized on a transmucosal buprenorphine-containing product.
Posted 1/28/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
In January 2014, the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) released its Standards of Care for the Addiction Specialist Physician.
Posted 1/2/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The Providence Center provides education pertaining to medication-assisted recovery to the Offenders who are currently receiving substance use disorder treatment and recovery services.
Posted 6/26/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This report provides recommendations for actions that state and local leaders can take immediately to increase evidence-based practices, decrease arbitrary determinations, and prevent overdose deaths. The report also provides concrete steps that will, in the longterm, help dismantle a siloed system of unequal access and disparities and move towards an integrated system that promotes restorative justice, where people and families are treated with dignity, and where addiction is treated as a health and wellness matter rather than one of moral failing or criminality.
Posted 7/27/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The American Medical Association’s Opioid Task Force report shows a dramatic increase in fatalities involving illicit opioids, stimulants (e.g. methamphetamine), heroin and cocaine and a similarly dramatic drop in the use of prescription opioids.
Posted 5/31/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
With facts and figures about health status, behavioral risk factors, mortality, and access to care, the resource aims to inform rural health policy for four states – Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas – along the U.S. southern border. The chartbook is a collaboration between the FORHP-supported Rural & Minority Health Research Center and the National Rural Health Association.