In January 2013, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released
guidelines to help reduce the misuse of prescription opioid analgesics by establishing …

Heroin use in the United States has grown considerably over the past decade.
Approximately 3 million Americans have used heroin, 1 a fact that has led to increasing …

Opioid use now accounts for more deaths than HIV, gun violence, and car crashes at their
respective peaks. 1 Among hospitalized patients, substance use disorders are common (» …

Objective: Little research has focused on the treatment of adults with substance use
disorders in primary care despite the high occurrence, morbidity, and mortality associated …

Screening and Brief Intervention for Drug Use in Primary Car... : Journal of Addiction Medicine
Screening and Brief Intervention for Drug Use in Primary Care : Journal of Addiction Medicine …

Emergency physicians can play a sig-nificant role in curtailing the misuse of prescription
opioid painkillers, but doing so will require the participation of others and must still take …

Now in its second decade, the opioid epidemic has claimed more than 800 000 lives in the
US, more than the combined total of all deaths in all US wars and armed conflicts from the …

The rate of opioid prescribing for adults visiting US emergency departments (EDs)
decreased markedly from 2006 through 2017, representing a decline of about 30 …

Introduction: Urine drug testing continues to be an important screening tool in our country.
This study was conducted to assess the cost-effectiveness of opioids use screening …

Opioid dependence and addiction are classified as severe medical conditions that cause
adverse effects on the individual, their family, and society as a whole. The increasing …