ArticleAddiction science & clinical practice2012
Just call it "treatment".
Article in Addiction science & clinical practice, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed.
- The prescription of addiction medications after implementation of chronic care management for substance dependence in primary care.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Trial
- Primary care professionals' perspectives on tailoring buprenorphine training for rural practice.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2024Article
- Opioid treatment program culture and philosophy: Views of OTP staff and state officials on implementing interim methadone treatment.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
- Impact of COVID-19 & Response Measures on HIV-HCV Prevention Services and Social Determinants in People Who Inject Drugs in 13 Sites with Recent HIV Outbreaks in Europe, North America and Israel.AIDS and behavior · 2023Article
- CommunityStat: A Public Health Intervention to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths in Burlington, Vermont, 2017-2020.Contemporary drug problems · 2022Article
- Developing a Penal Abolitionist Application to Drug Treatment Drawing from Insider Perspectives and Lived Experiences.Humanity & society · 2022Article
- Gender disparities in access and retention in outpatient methadone treatment for opioid use disorder in low-income urban communities.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Article
- Gender disparities in opioid treatment progress in methadone versus counseling.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2021Article
- Opioid Use Disorder: Treatments and Barriers.Cureus · 2021Review
- Revising our attitudes towards agonist medications and their diversion in a time of pandemic.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2020Article
- Global opioid agonist treatment: a review of clinical practices by country.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2020Review
- A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States: Political Appeal and Public Health Efficacy.American journal of public health · 2020Article
- A Scoping Review of Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of Medications for Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder within the Criminal Justice System.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- Opioid substitution therapy for people living in German prisons-inequality compared with civic sector.Harm reduction journal · 2019Review
- Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response.PLoS medicine · 2019Article
- The United States opioid epidemic.Seminars in perinatology · 2019Review
- Words matter: a call for humanizing and respectful language to describe people who experience incarceration.BMC international health and human rights · 2018Article
- Service delivery and pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder in the era of health reform: Data from a national sample of treatment organizations.Substance abuse · 2016Article
- Medications for addiction treatment: an opportunity for prescribing clinicians to facilitate remission from alcohol and opioid use disorders.Rhode Island medical journal (2013) · 2014Review
- Confronting inadvertent stigma and pejorative language in addiction scholarship: a recognition and response.Substance abuse · 2014Article
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Abstract
Although many in the addiction treatment field use the term "medication-assisted treatment" to describe a combination of pharmacotherapy and counseling to address substance dependence, research has demonstrated that opioid agonist treatment alone is effective in patients with opioid dependence, regardless of whether they receive counseling. The time has come to call pharmacotherapy for such patients just "treatment". An explicit acknowledgment that medication is an essential first-line component in the successful management of opioid dependence.
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