The designation of a public health emergency would expand the ways that individuals can get
treatment for opioid addiction, which could particularly benefit people in rural areas.
In this new analysis, the Yale team compared the relative cost and value of the three approaches for individuals screening
positive for opioid addiction: referral alone, brief intervention with facilitated referral, and ED - initiated buprenorphine.
Hep C patients being
treated for opioid addiction achieved high rates of sustained virologic response after 12 weeks of therapy with elbasvir - grazoprevir compared to those taking placebo for 12 weeks before beginning the drug treatment.
A treatment
program for opioid addiction launched by the Rhode Island Department of Corrections was associated with a significant drop in post-incarceration drug overdose deaths and contributed to an overall drop in overdose deaths statewide, a new study finds.
In an earlier analysis of this study, Yale researchers found that when patients are
screened for opioid addiction, receive ED - initiated buprenorphine, and a referral for ongoing treatment, the treatment was more effective than a standard referral or brief intervention with referral.
There's some new
funding for opioid addiction treatments and several Obamacare taxes are kept in place; but an amendment from Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, included in the latest bill, could also wreak havoc in the individual insurance marketplace, according to experts and the insurance industry itself (note: this amendment is so complicated that several prominent health wonks are openly admitting they don't know what its full implications are).
The call to execute certain drug traffickers is drawing the most attention, but another part of the plan could make a big difference: The White House will support research into developing a
vaccine for opioid addiction.
Kratom has been promoted as both a healing
cure for opioid addiction as well as a drug to be added on to existing opioids to enhance the euphoric high (it's also used purely recreationally by some people).
«Given the current state of the opioid overdose epidemic, it is critical that patients seeking
help for opioid addiction have access to comprehensive treatment that includes highly effective medications whose effects may be enhanced with the provision of psychosocial interventions,» according to the report by Karen Dugosh, PhD, of Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, and colleagues
Nationally, only about one in five individuals who needed treatment
for opioid addiction received treatment in the past year, and fewer received the most effective treatments, such as buprenorphine.
«We didn't know if zebrafish would be a relevant
model for opioid addiction, much less self - administer the drug,» Peterson said.
«It was very concerning to see that by the last year we studied, an average of 135 children each day were testing
positive for opioid addiction or dependency in emergency departments,» said Veerajalandhar Allareddy, MD, MBA, one of the abstract's authors and medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital.»
This apparent income - based difference in the likelihood patients were to be hospitalized and potentially
treated for their opioid addiction or dependency, Allareddy said, was among the many reason youth opioid addiction merits further study.
For example, NIDA is funding research to improve access to medication - assisted therapies, develop new
medications for opioid addiction, and expand access to naloxone by exploring more user - friendly delivery systems (for example, nasal sprays).
I have experience with patients in medication - assisted treatment (MAT)
programs for opioid addiction and those specifically working 12 step programs with sponsors during the client's sobriety from alcohol.
This month UC San Diego Health experts discuss the HPV vaccine for boys, effective
treatments for opioid addiction and when surgery is required for a hernia.
For instance, Gingrich is a strong advocate for funding scientific research and has even endorsed doubling the budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and medication - assisted treatment
for opioid addiction.
«Right now, it's too easy to access highly addictive opioids that are killing people, and too difficult to access the treatments
for opioid addiction,» says Andrew Kolodny, co-director of opioid policy research at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
Of the $ 2.6 billion in treatment
for opioid addiction and overdoses, $ 2.3 billion was paid by insurance, while another $ 335 million was paid out of pocket — and more than half went toward covering employees» children.
Heroin laws (effective Jan. 1): Part of a package of bills signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last summer will begin affecting how insurers cover treatment
for opioid addiction.
According to the authors, these results suggest that drug use should be removed as a barrier to interferon - free HCV therapy for patients being treated
for opioid addiction.
Psychosocial interventions, used together with effective medications, are a key part of recommended treatment
for opioid addiction.
For people, substitution therapies, which include slow acting opioids (methadone), opioids that produce a partial biological response (buprenorphine) or antagonists that block the opioid receptor (naloxone), are the only available treatments
for opioid addiction are often leading to high rates of relapse.
«Increasing number of children arrive at emergency departments addicted to opioids: The number of pediatric patients testing positive
for opioid addiction or dependency in US emergency departments jumped.»
Showing the opioid epidemic knows no age limits, new research suggests more than 100 children test positive
for opioid addiction or dependency each day in U.S. emergency departments.