Improving Adherence to Long-term Opioid Therapy Guidelines to Reduce Opioid Misuse in Primary Care - A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial. Liebschutz JM, Xuan Z, Shanahan CW, LaRochelle M, Keosaian J, Beers D, Guara G, O’Connor K, Alford DP, P…

A new, team-based, primary care model is decreasing prescription opioid use among patients with chronic pain by 40 percent, according to a new study out of Boston Medical Center's Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine, which is published online ahea…

A combination of funding, bureaucracy and fear of perpetuating addiction are to blame. (The Economist, 13.07.2017) https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21725023-combination-funding-bureaucracy-and-fear-perpetuating-addiction-are-blame-most

Charity says young mother from midlands one of many coming to Dublin to get drug.(The Irish Times, 05.07.2017) https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/woman-would-not-have-died-if-methadone-provided-outside-dublin-1.3144275

The effectiveness of telemedicine-delivered opioid agonist therapy in a supervised clinical setting. Eibl JK, Gauthier G, Pellegrini D, Daiter J, Varenbut M, Hogenbirk JC, Marsh DC. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2017 Jul 1;176:133-138. doi: 10.1016/j.druga…

Report on the first government-funded opioid substitution programme for heroin users in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Michie G, Hoosain S, Macharia M, Weich L. S Afr Med J. 2017 May 24;107(6):539-542. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i6.12140…