Association of Receipt of Opioid Use Disorder–Related Telehealth Services and Medications for Opioid Use Disorder With Fatal Drug Overdoses Among Medicare Beneficiaries Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.0310
Abstract: Key Points Question Were new federal authorities to expand telehealth use for substance use disorder treatment and to facilitate provision of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) during the COVID-19 pandemic associated with a lower… read more here.
Keywords: fatal drug; telehealth; opioid use; use disorder ... See more keywords
Prior Emergency Medical Services Utilization Among People Who Had an Accidental Opioid-Involved Fatal Drug Overdose-Rhode Island, 2018-2020.
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DOI: 10.1177/00333549231154582
Abstract: OBJECTIVE To help understand whether decreased emergency medical services (EMS) utilization due to the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to increased accidental fatal drug overdoses, we characterized recent EMS utilization history among people who had an accidental… read more here.
Keywords: fatal drug; rhode island; opioid involved; accidental opioid ... See more keywords