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Opioid use disorder and treatment: challenges and opportunities
BACKGROUND: Addiction health service researchers have focused efforts on opioid use disorder (OUD) and strategies to address the emerging public health threats associated with the epidemics of opioid use and opioid overdose. The increase in OUD is associated with widespread access to prescription op...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6876068/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31767011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4751-4 |
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author | Hoffman, Kim A. Ponce Terashima, Javier McCarty, Dennis |
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description | BACKGROUND: Addiction health service researchers have focused efforts on opioid use disorder (OUD) and strategies to address the emerging public health threats associated with the epidemics of opioid use and opioid overdose. The increase in OUD is associated with widespread access to prescription opioid analgesics, enhanced purity of heroin, the introduction of potent illicit fentanyl compounds, and a rising tide of opioid overdose fatalities. These deaths have become the face of the opioid epidemic. MAIN TEXT: OUD is a chronic disorder that usually requires both medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and psychosocial treatment and support. Research has found that MOUD with an opioid receptor agonist (methadone), partial agonist (buprenorphine), or opioid antagonist (extended-release naltrexone) can support recovery. Despite compelling evidence that MOUD are effective, they remain underutilized. More research is needed on these therapies to understand the feasibility of implementation in clinic settings. CONCLUSION: This special issue focuses on how health services research has emerged as an important contributor to efforts to control the opioid epidemic in North America and Europe. |
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spelling | pubmed-68760682019-11-29 Opioid use disorder and treatment: challenges and opportunities Hoffman, Kim A. Ponce Terashima, Javier McCarty, Dennis BMC Health Serv Res Review BACKGROUND: Addiction health service researchers have focused efforts on opioid use disorder (OUD) and strategies to address the emerging public health threats associated with the epidemics of opioid use and opioid overdose. The increase in OUD is associated with widespread access to prescription opioid analgesics, enhanced purity of heroin, the introduction of potent illicit fentanyl compounds, and a rising tide of opioid overdose fatalities. These deaths have become the face of the opioid epidemic. MAIN TEXT: OUD is a chronic disorder that usually requires both medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and psychosocial treatment and support. Research has found that MOUD with an opioid receptor agonist (methadone), partial agonist (buprenorphine), or opioid antagonist (extended-release naltrexone) can support recovery. Despite compelling evidence that MOUD are effective, they remain underutilized. More research is needed on these therapies to understand the feasibility of implementation in clinic settings. CONCLUSION: This special issue focuses on how health services research has emerged as an important contributor to efforts to control the opioid epidemic in North America and Europe. BioMed Central 2019-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6876068/ /pubmed/31767011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4751-4 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Review Hoffman, Kim A. Ponce Terashima, Javier McCarty, Dennis Opioid use disorder and treatment: challenges and opportunities |
title | Opioid use disorder and treatment: challenges and opportunities |
title_full | Opioid use disorder and treatment: challenges and opportunities |
title_fullStr | Opioid use disorder and treatment: challenges and opportunities |
title_full_unstemmed | Opioid use disorder and treatment: challenges and opportunities |
title_short | Opioid use disorder and treatment: challenges and opportunities |
title_sort | opioid use disorder and treatment: challenges and opportunities |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6876068/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31767011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4751-4 |
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