But that bias, they say, "would likely lead us to underestimate illicit opioid use." The NSDUH sample is much larger than the number of people who participated in the Respondi survey: 67,500 vs ...

Axios Visuals Texas bore an estimated $187.5 billion cost from opioid use disorder in 2024, according to a comprehensive new analysis. Why it matters: Opioid abuse is not only a public health crisis — ...

Illicit opioid use may be higher than previously reported in the United States, according to a study published online May 9 in JAMA Health Forum. David Powell, Ph.D., from RAND in Arlington, Virginia, ...

opioids Opioid use is declining in American cancer patients but at a lower rate than in patients without cancer, data suggest. Opioid use is declining in American cancer patients but at a lower ...

Illustrative graph showing the rising opioid use in Israel compared to the US. (credit: NADAV DAVIDOVITCH, YANNAI KRANZLER, OREN MIRON/TAUB CENTER) Drowsiness, confusion, nausea, constipation and ...

Even though overdose deaths have declined over the last three years, Kentucky still has one of the highest rates of opioid ...

Among 2.5 million adults with opioid use disorder (OUD), only 36% received any substance use treatment, and only 22% received medications for OUD in a recent study. In 2021, an estimated 2.5 ...

The opioid use epidemic has been on the forefront of societal concerns in the US. With the DEA-MATE act, all providers have to be able to adeptly prescribe and manage Opioid Use Disorder and related ...

tens of thousands of Americans die from opioid use, with 82,000 opioid-involved overdose deaths in 2022, according to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Now in his second term ...

Other European countries, like Switzerland, that have made medication to treat opioid-use disorder easily accessible also have much lower overdose death rates than those seen in the United States.

Just 44 percent of jails offer incarcerated people with opioid use disorder medications like methadone, buprenorphine or naltrexone to treat addiction, according to a new analysis of 1,028 jails ...