Higher doses and a longer duration of buprenorphine use throughout pregnancy for opioid use disorder (OUD) are associated with improved postpartum treatment retention and fewer overdose events, with ...

New research from Mass General Brigham finds that adolescents and young adults who stayed on the medication buprenorphine for at least a year had markedly lower risks of opioid overdose and ...

Among youth who initiated buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder, four patterns of buprenorphine use were identified, with the most common being discontinuation within 3 months. Low adherence ...

Adults with opioid use disorder who receive a higher daily dose of the opioid addiction treatment medication buprenorphine may have a lower risk of subsequent emergency department visits or use of ...

Low adherence and discontinuation in less than 3 months led to a higher risk for emergency department use compared with high adherence. HealthDay News — Buprenorphine adherence among youths may ...

Portland, Ore. (KATU) — 7,000; that's how many overdose calls Portland Fire and Rescue responded to last year. A third of those calls went to Station 1 in Old Town, which is why the bureau is now ...

After years of alarming increases in opioid overdose deaths, the U.S. finally saw a 1-year decline from 84,000 to 81,000 in 2023. While the marginal drop is encouraging, we cannot rest on this ...

Nearly all Americans are aware of the U.S. opioid crisis. Overdose deaths increased sixfold between 2003 and 2023, from 12,940 to 79,358. Yearly increases have been especially steep since 2013, when ...

This medicine may be one of the best tools doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Preparation of a dose of Buprenorphine, an opioid that can be administered to people with opioid-use disorder to ...

Isolation and anxiety caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have fueled an already out-of-control overdose crisis. In 2020 alone, more than 100,000 individuals died from an overdose. With overdose rates ...

The authors of the study suggested that this could indicate that while all these federal policy changes are important and significant, their effects are diminishing over time and there are other ...