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This survey study examines barriers to and facilitators of obtaining a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine among office-based clinicians in Texas.
This case series examines numbers of US clinicians receiving waivers from the Drug Enforcement Administration allowing them to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This cohort study with a case-crossover analytical design examines the associations between prescription stimulant use and drug-related poisonings and buprenorphine treatment retention among patients with opioid use disorder.
This cohort study assesses whether suicide attempts by females aged 8 to 19 years in Quebec, Canada, are associated with subsequent risk of substance use disorders later in life.
This comparative effectiveness study evaluates distribution of buprenorphine and naltrexone initiation among individuals with opioid use disorder with or without cooccurring substance use disorder.
This study uses data from the state-level Youth Risk Behavioral Survey to evaluate mental health and substance use outcomes among homeless and nonhomeless adolescents in 2019.
This randomized clinical trial tests the effect of a mailed, at-home disposal kit on disposal rates of unused opioids after surgery.
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the efficacy, dose response, safety, and pharmacokinetics of 3 different doses of difelikefalin compared with placebo for the treatment of moderate to severe pruritus among Japanese patients receiving hemodialysis.
This cross-sectional study uses US vital statistics data to evaluate alcohol use disorder–related mortality rates from 2012 to 2021, with a focus on trends during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This study uses mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics to assess whether alcohol-related deaths increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This Viewpoint discusses increases in opioid use disorder among pregnant people during the US opioid crisis and recommendations to define, diagnose, and treat neonatal abstinence syndrome and neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome.
This cohort study examines changes in naloxone and opioid prescribing rates in the outpatient setting at 1 integrated health care system after the launch of decision-support prompts in the electronic health record (HER) in compliance with the State of California Assembly Bill 2760.
This cross-sectional study evaluates publicly available data from Massachusetts on reporting trends in opioid-related overdose deaths by race and ethnicity.
This cohort study assesses the association of rapid reduction or discontinuation of opioid therapy with overdose and opioid use disorder (OUD) among patients receiving high-dose, long-term opioid therapy in North Carolina.
This exploratory study was conducted to examine trends in cigarette smoking among adults with and without a major depressive episode, substance use disorder, or both and by age, sex, and race and ethnicity.
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