USA. Yale experts develop new free app to tackle opioid addiction As the opioid overdose epidemic continues to take its toll, causing 47,600 deaths in 2017, researchers continue to seek innovative solutions to the crisis. At Yale, a team of medical…

Computerized Clinical Decision Support System for Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder: User-Centered Design. Ray JM, Ahmed OM, Solad Y, Maleska M, Martel S, Jeffery MM, Platts-Mills TF, Hess EP, D'Onofrio G, Melnick…

Community Forums to Address the Opioid Crisis: An Effective Grassroots Approach to Rural Community Engagement. Palombi L, Olivarez M, Bennett L, Hawthorne AN. Subst Abuse. 2019 Feb 17;13:1178221819827595. doi: 10.1177/1178221819827595.  http…

Comparing Canadian and United States opioid agonist therapy policies. Priest KC, Gorfinkel L, Klimas J, Jones AA, Fairbairn N, McCarty D. Int J Drug Policy. 2019 Feb 11. pii: S0955-3959(19)30028-3. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.01.020. Abstract htt…

Drug treatment systems in the Western Balkans: outcomes of a joint EMCDDA-UNODC survey of drug treatment facilities Summary This report presents a summary of the key findings from drug treatment facility surveys carried out in 2017 in Albania, Bos…

USA. Many Rural Americans Have No Access to Buprenorphine Nearly a third of rural Americans live in a county without access to buprenorphine—the gold standard for treating opioid use disorder, according to a new Pew fact sheet. (Filter, U…