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SUBMITTER: Crist RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5935553 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Crist Richard C RC Clarke Toni-Kim TK Berrettini Wade H WH
CNS drugs 20180401 4
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a significant health problem in the United States and many other countries. A combination of issues, most notably increased prescription of opioid analgesics, has resulted in climbing rates of opioid abuse and overdose over the last decade. This ongoing epidemic has produced a growing population of patients requiring treatment for OUD. Medications such as methadone and buprenorphine have well documented success rates in treating the disorder compared with placebo. Ho ...[more]