Healio (6/13, VanDewater) reports, “From 2017 to 2021, people seeking treatment for opioid use disorder” (OUD) “increasingly tested positive for fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine at presentation,” but “over one year of methadone treatment for” OUD, “heroin and fentanyl positivity decreased,” investigators concluded in a study that analyzed 194,333 urine “specimens from 16,386 patients in 10 states.” The findings were published online May 9 in the journal Addiction.
Related Links:
— “Patients seeking opioid use treatment increasingly test positive for illicit drug co-use,” Kalie VanDewater, Healio, June 13, 2023