Psychiatric News (2/27) reports, “Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) who receive treatment with methadone or buprenorphine” appear to have an 80 percent “lower risk of dying from an opioid overdose compared with patients receiving nonmedication treatment,” researchers concluded after examining “outpatient substance use specialty treatment records from 48,274 patients in Maryland from 2015 to 2016 and” then cross-referencing “the data with opioid overdose death records.” The findings were published online Feb. 24 in the journal Addiction.
Related Links:
— “Medication Treatment for OUD Linked With 80% Lower Risk of Fatal Overdose, Psychiatric New, February 27, 2020