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Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found that restricting telehealth prescriptions for opioid use disorder could keep thousands from accessing buprenorphine, a medication that helps people recover from addiction.
Mar 20, 2025
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Widespread access to opioid agonist treatment (OAT) can reduce the risk of suicide by 35% among people with opioid use disorder, according to a new study published in Addiction.
Mar 3, 2025
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Chronic pain is complex and difficult to treat. Prescribing opioid pain medications has become controversial but may help some patients.
Feb 20, 2025
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In the face of the alarming number of opioid-related deaths in the U.S., there have been national efforts to increase emergency clinician prescribing of buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder. In a ...
Feb 19, 2025
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Opioid use during pregnancy—whether of highly addictive drugs like fentanyl or controlled opioids like buprenorphine—doubles the risk of preterm birth. A new Yale study reveals that inflammation may be the culprit.
Feb 18, 2025
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After nearly a decade of almost year-over-year increases in overdose deaths, the tide may finally be turning in Philadelphia.
Feb 11, 2025
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For adults with opioid use disorder (OUD) receiving buprenorphine, a mindfulness-based group is similar to a recovery support group for opioid use, substance use, and reductions in anxiety, but demonstrates a larger reduction ...
Jan 29, 2025
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Despite the removal of the X-waiver requirement, which once restricted clinicians from prescribing buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD), only a small percentage of primary care clinicians currently prescribe medication ...
Jan 28, 2025
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In 2023, more than 84,000 people in the U.S. died from overdosing on opioids—everything from prescription painkillers to fentanyl to heroin.
Jan 27, 2025
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, when fentanyl overdoses surged, doctors were desperate to find ways of helping their patients. They knew that buprenorphine could help people stop using opioids, but it was much harder to start ...
Jan 24, 2025
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