Opioid Use Disorder

The Role of Cannabis Use in Suicidal Ideation Among Patients With Opioid Use Disorder

Scientific article

Source: Naji, L., Rosic, T., Sanger, N., Dennis, B., Worster, A., Paul, J., ... & Samaan, Z. (2020). The Role of Cannabis Use in Suicidal Ideation Among Patients With Opioid Use Disorder. Journal of addiction medicine. Abstract Objectives...

US-MX Border Rural Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Response: Lessons learned in program planning and implementation

17 February 2021

Washington, D.C.

United States

On Wednesday, February 17, 2021, starting at 03:00 PM (Washington, DC time), Maryland Rural Opioid Technical Assistance initiative (MarylandROTA) invites you to the webinar “US-MX Border Rural Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Response: Lessons learned in program planning and implementation."

Caring for Patients with Chronic Pain: Perspectives from Clinicians -Opioid Collab Listening Session

Video and audio recordings

The Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic held a web-based listening session that focused on the perspectives and experiences of clinicians caring for patients with chronic, non-cancer pain. This is a recording of that...

Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorder in Jails and Prisons

Video and audio recordings

People who have been incarcerated are approximately 100 times more likely to die by overdose in the first two weeks after their release than the general public. Despite high rates of opioid use disorder among justice-involved individuals...

When COVID-19 and Opioid Addiction Collide

News

We are witnessing, arguably, the greatest public health issue of our time. However, that is not to say the public health concerns that were present before the pandemic have disappeared. Opioid addiction and opioid-related deaths continue to...

Treatment Improvement Protocol 63: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder

Book

The goal of treatment for opioid addiction or opioid use disorder (OUD) is remission of the disorder leading to lasting recovery. Recovery is a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live self...

Differences in Availability and Use of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Residential Treatment Settings in the United States

Scientific article

7 February 2020

Opioid use and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) continues to be a significant public health concern in the United States. Several medications for OUD (MOUDs) are now considered by the medical community to be the criterion standard in OUD recovery...

Free Webinar: Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorder in Jails and Prisons

25 February 2020

Webinar

Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorder in Jails and Prisons: A Planning and Implementation Toolkit

Website

Opioid Use Disorder: A Nature Reviews Primer

Book

8 January 2020

Abstract | Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a chronic relapsing disorder that, whilst initially driven by activation of brain reward neurocircuits, increasingly engages anti-reward neurocircuits that drive adverse emotional states and relapse...

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