Three-year retention in methadone opioid agonist treatment: A survival analysis of clients by dose, area deprivation, and availability of alcohol and cannabis outlets

Drug overdose has become the leading cause of accidental death in the United States with opioids driving this crisis (Hedegaard et al., 2017). Opioids - illicit, prescribed, or both - constituted almost two thirds (42,249 out of 63,632) of drug overdose deaths in 2016, an increase of 47.5% and 27.7% from 2014 and 2015 respectively. In a fourteen-month period between July 2016 and September 2017, 142,557 out of 91 million emergency department visits (157 per 100,000) alleged opioid overdose (Vivolo-Kantor et al., 2018).

Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - October 6, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Solmaz Amiri, Katherine Hirchak, Robert Lutz, Michael G. McDonell, Sterling M. McPherson, John M. Roll, Ofer Amram Tags: Full length article Source Type: research