USA. Why an OASAS License for a Low-Threshold Bupe Provider Is So Significant REACH—a harm reduction-oriented health center in Ithaca, New York that prescribes buprenorphine, among many other services—is about to get a license from the state’s Offi…

Kanada. Methadose: A Parable of Putting Profit Before Human Lives  Imagine being on a medication, any medication, and all a sudden it doesn’t work anymore. It only works for about one-third of the time, and you get sick before you can have you…

USA. Pilot program increases access to Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) in Colorado  Nurse practitioners and physician assistants help increase access to MOUD 10-fold in two rural Colorado counties with high overdose rates. (Universit…

Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in a Rural Family Medicine Practice.  Deyo-Svendsen M, Cabrera Svendsen M, Walker J, Hodges A, Oldfather R, Mansukhani MP.  J Prim Care Community Health. 2020;11:2150132720931720. doi…

Finding the Hidden Risk Profiles of the United States Opioid Epidemic: Using a Person-Centered Approach on a National Dataset of Noninstitutionalized Adults Reporting Opioid Misuse. Montiel Ishino FA, Gilreath T, Williams F.  Int J Environ Re…

USA. A Native American tribe plans to build an opioid treatment center, but neighbors have vowed to block it A classic not-in-my backyard fight has erupted in the Pacific Northwest over a recovery and medical center for an area hit hard by addictio…