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June 4, 2021
The authors found that discontinuation, defined by a gap of 14-or-more days in medication coverage, was common across all four medications for opioid use disorder.
April 19, 2021
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, or NIDA, considers data harmonization in substance use disorder, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) research a high-priority. Data harmonization allows investigators to synthesize data across independent studies and promote more rigorous and comparable analyses of an intervention, program, or policy. Harmonizing data also ensures that […]
April 1, 2021
A Message from the Director There is ample research that points to one glaring truth: Black, Indigenous, and People of color, also referred to as BIPOC, are disproportionally harmed and disenfranchised because of substance use policies rooted in systemic racism. We know inequities also exist in academic settings that support funding opportunities and career advancement […]
South Africa carries one of the largest HIV burdens in the world. On a global scale, nearly 54% of the population living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries reside in eastern and southern Africa, and 13% reside in western and central Africa. The growing prevalence of substance use in South Africa is also associated […]
In a new study in JAMA Network Open, CHERISH investigators Jake Morgan, Sean Murphy, Alexander Walley, Benjamin Linas and Bruce Schackman and colleagues, examined whether rates of opioid-related overdose and all-cause hospitalization differed after outpatient medication treatment or inpatient care for opioid use disorder. They studied individuals who had received one of three federally- approved […]
Going Beyond a 2% Solution “X-the X Waiver” has been the slogan used by physicians and public health advocates fighting for greater access to buprenorphine, a medication proven to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) with higher effectiveness than many other treatments. Despite being safe, however, buprenorphine is tightly regulated, and to prescribe it, health care […]