USA. Bad Weather Take Home Doses for Opioid Treatment Program Patients We’ve had some snowy days in my area, and this means administrators at our opioid treatment program must decide if we should provide extra take home doses to patients…

A pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial of an adjunct brief social network intervention in opiate substitution treatment services. Day E, Copello A, Seddon JL, Christie M, Bamber D, Powell C, Bennett C, Akhtar S, George S, Ball A, Frew E, G…

USA-New York. Opioid Addiction Knows No Color, but Ist Treatment Does On a street lined with garbage trucks, in an industrial edge of Brooklyn, dozens of people started filing into an unmarked building before the winter sun rose. Patients gather he…

USA. Buprenorphine and Methadone Dispensing in New York City. Tuazon E, Kunins H, Paone D. New York City, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene: Epi Data Brief (96); November 2017. Buprenorphine and methadone are opioid agonist medications th…

A Clinical Study of Opioid Substitution Therapy in a Tertiary Care Center of Eastern India. Mohapatra S, Nayak MR, Dash M. Indian J Psychol Med. 2017 Nov-Dec;39(6):756-759. doi: 10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_61_17. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl…

A cross-national analysis of the association between years of implementation of opioid substitution treatments and drug-related deaths in Europe from 1995 to 2013. Marotta PL, McCullagh CA. Eur J Epidemiol. 2017 Dec 12. doi: 10.1007/s10654-017-034…