USA. Opioids study shows high-risk counties across the country, suggests local solutions In a study of more than 3,000 counties across the U.S., the researchers found that residents of 412 counties are at least twice as likely to be at high risk fo…

Factors Associated with Compliance among Methadone Maintenance Treatment Transfers: Evidence from Audit Records at Clinics in Guangdong, China. Gong C, Zou X, Chen W, Liu Y, Lu Q, Ling L. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Jun 6;16(11). pii: E2…

USA. One Possible Solution to the Opioid Crisis in the U.S. Has Been Inexplicably Ignored The President’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) just released a new report on how to beat back America’s opioid crisis. The CEA highlighted as potential so…

Expanding low-threshold buprenorphineto justice-involved individuals through mobile treatment: Addressing a critical care gap. Krawczyk N, Buresh M, Gordon MS, Blue TR, Fingerhood MI, Agus D. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2019 Aug;103:1-8. doi: 10.101…

A scalable, automated warm handoff from the emergency department to community sites offering continued medication for opioid use disorder: Lessons learned from the EMBED trial stakeholders. Ahmed OM, Mao JA, Holt SR, Hawk K, D'Onofrio G, Martel S…

User-centred clinical decision support to implement emergency department-initiated buprenorphine for opioid use disorder: protocol for the pragmatic group randomised EMBED trial. Melnick ER, Jeffery MM, Dziura JD, Mao JA, Hess EP, Platts-Mills TF…