USA. San Francisco Hospital Program Offers Harm Reduction to Patients In some hospitals in the United States, doctors will send people home with prescriptions for opioid use disorder medications like methadone and buprenorphine after they are disch…

Healthcare seeking among Swedish patients in opioid substitution treatment – a mixed methods study on barriers and facilitators.  Troberg, K., Lundqvist, K., Hansson, H. et al.  Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 17, 8 (2022). doi.o…

USA. State Toolkit to End the Nation’s Drug Overdose Epidemic: Leading-Edge Actions and Strategies to Remove Barriers to Evidence-based Patient Care The 2022 AMA-Manatt Toolkit builds on the 2020 roadmap by providing actionable resources that state…

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link: Using a “cascade of care” approach to evaluate gaps in the opioid use disorder treatment pipeline There are persistent gaps in the addiction “science-to-practice” pipeline that lead to marked diff…

Real-world effectiveness of pharmacological treatments of opioid use disorder in a national cohort.  Heikkinen, M, Taipale, H, Tanskanen, A, Mittendorfer-Rutz, E, Lähteenvuo, M, Tiihonen, J.  Addiction. 2022…

Irland. Record number of heroin users accessing help The number of heroin users in drug treatment has reached record numbers, with almost 11,500 receiving substitute medication. (Irish Examiner, Irland, 21.02.2022) https://www.irishexaminer.com/ne…