Background:The association between cost-sharing and receipt of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is unknown.Methods:We constructed a cohort of 10,513 commercially insured individuals with a new diagnosis of opioid use disorder (OUD) and ...
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Social Determinants of Health and Continuity of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Among Patients Receiving Treatment in Rural Primary Care Settings. [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: Factors associated with treatment retention on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in rural settings are poorly understood. This study examines associations between social determinants of health (SDoH) and MOUD retention among patients
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Linking people with opioid use disorder to medication treatment : a technical package of policy, programs, and practices [PDF]
Millions of Americans are living with opioid use disorder (OUD). Fortunately, medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) approved by the Food and Drug Administration can effectively treat OUD, reduce illicit opioid use or prescription opioid misuse, and ...
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A Knowledge Graph-based Approach for Exploring the U.S. Opioid Epidemic [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The United States is in the midst of an opioid epidemic with recent estimates indicating that more than 130 people die every day due to drug overdose. The over-prescription and addiction to opioid painkillers, heroin, and synthetic opioids, has led to a public health crisis and created a huge social and economic burden.
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Opioid Atlas: Mapping Access to Pain Medication [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Opiates are some of the most effective pain relief medications available for patients suffering from cancer and surgery-related pain. Despite the affordability and effectiveness of these medications, access to opiates is highly geographically variable. Pain researchers have attributed geographic variation to various factors including the fear of opioid
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Critical Care Pain Management with Morphine using Dueling Double-Deep Q Networks [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Opioids are the preferred medications for the treatment of pain in the intensive care unit. While undertreatment leads to unrelieved pain and poor clinical outcomes, excessive use of opioids puts patients at risk of experiencing multiple adverse effects.
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Prescribed Child Abuse? Using the Americans with Disabilities Act to Deconstruct Discrimination Against Medication for Opioid Use Disorder in Child Abuse & Neglect Proceedings [PDF]
The opioid crisis has disrupted parent-child relationships across the United States. While states actively seek to remove children from households with current drug use in order to protect the children, state entities often fail to protect the parent ...
Stuard, Makenzie
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A Comparison of Veterans with Problematic Opioid Use Identified through Natural Language Processing of Clinical Notes versus Using Diagnostic Codes [PDF]
arXivBackground: Electronic health records (EHRs) are a data source for opioid research. Opioid use disorder is known to be under-coded as a diagnosis, yet problematic opioid use can be documented in clinical notes. Objectives: Our goals were 1) to identify problematic opioid use from a full range of clinical notes; and 2) to compare the characteristics ...
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