Medication-assisted therapies--tackling the opioid-overdose epidemic

N Engl J Med. 2014 May 29;370(22):2063-6. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1402780. Epub 2014 Apr 23.

Authors

Nora D Volkow¹, Thomas R Frieden, Pamela S Hyde, Stephen S Cha

Affiliation

¹ From the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (N.D.V.), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville (P.S.H.), and the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore (S.S.C.) - all in Maryland; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (T.R.F.).

PMID: 24758595
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1402780

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / agonists*
Analgesics, Opioid / therapeutic use
Drug Overdose / mortality*
Drug Overdose / prevention & control
Drug and Narcotic Control / legislation & jurisprudence*
Epidemics
Health Services Accessibility / economics
Hospitalization / trends
Humans
Insurance Coverage
Medicaid
Narcotic Antagonists / therapeutic use*
Opioid-Related Disorders / drug therapy*
Opioid-Related Disorders / epidemiology
Opioid-Related Disorders / mortality
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
United States / epidemiology

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid
Narcotic Antagonists