Opioid Resource Center
Commentary
Treatment in prison systems might lead to drop in overdose deaths
People leveraged into treatment to maintain professional licenses, including physicians, have rates of sobriety of 90% or greater after 5 years,...
From the Journals
Poverty, incarceration may drive deaths from drug use
Four decades of data show associations among low household income, high incarceration rates, and drug-related deaths.
Conference Coverage
Claims data suggest endometriosis ups risk of chronic opioid use
Women with endometriosis had a nearly 300% higher rate of chronic opioid use, compared with those without endometriosis, according to an analysis...
Conference Coverage
Co-use of opioids, methamphetamine on rise in rural Oregon
SAN ANTONIO – Methamphetamine’s wide availability and low cost also increased its use. In addition, methamphetamine use carries less stigma than...
Conference Coverage
Parent education improves quick disposal of children’s unused prescription opioids
SAN ANTONIO – Parents were significantly more likely to dispose of their children’s leftover prescription opioids if they had received both...
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Medical cannabis laws appear no longer tied to drop in opioid overdose mortality
"Cannabinoids have demonstrated therapeutic benefits, but reducing population-level opioid overdose mortality does not appear to be among them,"...
Conference Coverage
Nicotine replacement therapy beats varenicline for smokers with OUD
SAN ANTONIO – “Results suggest it may be preferable to offer smokers with opioid use disorder [nicotine replacement therapy] rather than...
Conference Coverage
Abuse rate of gabapentin, pregabalin far below that of opioids
SAN ANTONIO – “Both gabapentin and pregabalin are abused but at rates that are 6-56 times less frequent than for opioid analgesics,” wrote Dr....
From the Journals
Chronic opioid use may be common in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
About a quarter of patients diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis receive at least 90 days of opioids in a year, based on an analysis of U.S....
MDedge Psychcast
The Opioid Crisis: An MDedge Psychcast Presentation
Feature
Opioid prescriptions declined 33% over 5 years
The number of opioid prescriptions decreased 33% nationally from 2013 to 2018, according to the new report from the American Medical Association...