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What impact does opioid agonist treatment have on mortality at a population level? 

What impact does opioid agonist treatment have on mortality at a population level? 

Matthew Hickman, Annick Borquez and Louisa Degenhardt on using linked government data to demonstrate that opioid agonist treatments for opioid dependence – such as methadone and buprenorphine – prevented drug-related deaths in New South Wales. (SSA – Society for the Study of Addiction, UK, 2022)

https://www.addiction-ssa.org/what-impact-does-opioid-agonist-treatment-have-on-mortality-at-a-population-level/