Background Literature identifies older people who use opioids as a neglected population.
Little is known about temporal changes, or about treatment demand among this population …

Objective To improve the understanding of problematic opioid use, monitoring of patterns of
use is essential. We investigated changes in first-time registrations for opioid agonist …

Objectives Opioid use has increased globally, dramatically increasing opioid overdose,
dependence, abuse and mortality. Limited research is available on opioid use patterns in …

Background Historically, issues relating to problem substance use among older people have
received little attention, and have only recently been recognised. Methods A literature review …

Background The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the profiles of the
new treatment demands posed by opioid addicts between 2005 and 2010 at the addictive …

Background Older adults with opioid use disorder (OUD) are a medically complex
population. The current study evaluated trends in older adults seeking treatment for OUD …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To compare treatment retention in a Medication for Opioid Use
Disorder program between older and younger adults with opioid use disorder. METHODS …

Background• Heroin epidemic Ireland in 1980s and 1990s, overwhelmingly in Dublin and
among young men• Recent evidence of declines in opioid use in young people, but …

Objectives To describe and explore somatic disease burdens of ageing long-term patients in
opioid maintenance treatment (OMT), a unique population emerging in countries offering …

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of 23,804 adults in an integrated
health system who had received a first opioid prescription between 2010 and 2015. We …