The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these
drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use …

On October 30 and 31, 2018, the Committee on Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) held a 1.5-day workshop in Washington, DC. To support the …

When discussing disparities in addiction treatment it is important to understand the historical
foundation from which these disparities arise. The racialization of drugs and subsequent …

Background Prescription opioid overdose (POD) and heroin overdose (HOD) rates have
quadrupled since 1999. Community-level socioeconomic characteristics are associated with …

Background: The high prevalence of smoking among individuals receiving treatment for
substance use disorder (SUD) has led to repeated calls for integrating smoking cessation …

Despite available treatment options for addiction, there remains an abysmal uptake of
treatment initiation and engagement among varying communities. This article carefully …

Abstract Introduction The federal Opioid State Targeted Response (Opioid STR) grants
provided funding to each state to ramp up the range of responses to reverse the ongoing …

Despite high mortality rates due to opioid overdose and excessive alcohol consumption,
medications for the treatment of alcohol and opioid use disorder have not been widely used …

Objective: The US Food and Drug Administration's approval of buprenorphine in 2002
expanded options for treating opioid use disorder (OUD). Physicians who intend to treat …

Introduction Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is effective for alcohol and opioid use
disorders but it is stigmatized and underutilized in criminal justice settings. Methods This …