Background There is pressing need to improve hospital-based addiction care. Various
models for integrating substance use disorder care into hospital settings exist, but there is no …

The opioid epidemic has fueled infectious disease epidemics. We determined the impact of
medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) on treatment outcomes of opioid use disorder …

Background Rises in the incidence of bacterial infections, such as infective endocarditis (IE),
have been reported in conjunction with the opioid crisis. However, recent trends for IE and …

Background Injection drug use has far-reaching social, economic, and health
consequences. Serious bacterial infections, including skin/soft tissue infections …

Introduction: Substance use disorder has been frequently reported to increase the risk of
infectious diseases, which might be owing to the sharing of contaminated inhalation …

1Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2Center for
Interdisciplinary Population & Health Research, MaineHealth Institute for Research …

Background Serious bacterial infections associated with substance use often result in long
hospitalizations, premature discharges, and high costs. Out-of-hospital treatment options in …

Background Persons who inject drugs (PWID) are at risk of invasive infections; however,
hospitalizations to treat these infections are frequently complicated by against medical …

Increased rates of overdose (OD) and blood-borne infections have been associated with
injection drug use (IDU). This increasing overlap between IDU-related infectious diseases …

Background The opioid epidemic has led to increases in injection drug use (IDU)-associated
infectious diseases; however, little is known about how more recent increases in stimulant …