ArticleJournal of addictive behaviors, therapy & rehabilitation
Managing Opioid Use Disorder During and After Acute Hospitalization: A Case-Based Review Clarifying Methadone Regulation for Acute Care Settings.
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- Management of opioid use disorder and associated conditions among hospitalized adults: A Consensus Statement from the Society of Hospital Medicine.Journal of hospital medicine · 2022Pooled it
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- Making Sense: Treating Patients with Opioid Use Disorder through the Lens of Game Theory.Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives · 2024Article
- Concurrent opioid and alcohol withdrawal management.The mental health clinician · 2023Article
- A conceptual framework for how structural changes in emerging acute substance use service models can reduce stigma of medications for opioid use disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Experiences of stigma in hospitals with addiction consultation services: A qualitative analysis of patients' and hospital-based providers' perspectives.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
- Methadone treatment and patient-directed hospital discharges among patients with opioid use disorder: Observations from general medicine services at an urban, safety-net hospital.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2022Article
- Experiences with an addiction consultation service on care provided to hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder: a qualitative study of hospitalists, nurses, pharmacists, and social workers.Substance abuse · 2022Article
- Clinical impact, costs, and cost-effectiveness of hospital-based strategies for addressing the US opioid epidemic: a modelling study.The Lancet. Public health · 2022Article
- Methadone initiation in a bridge clinic for opioid withdrawal and opioid treatment program linkage: a case report applying the 72-hour rule.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2021Article
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- Making the business case for an addiction medicine consult service: a qualitative analysis.BMC health services research · 2019Article
- Identification, Management, and Transition of Care for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department.Annals of emergency medicine · 2018Review
- Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Among People Who Inject Drugs: A Review of the Literature.Open forum infectious diseases · 2018Review
- Inpatient Addiction Consult Service: Expertise for Hospitalized Patients with Complex Addiction Problems.The Medical clinics of North America · 2018Review
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- Geographic variation in hospital costs, payments, and length of stay for opioid-related hospital visits in the USA.Journal of pain research · 2018Article
- Optimising health and safety of people who inject drugs during transition from acute to outpatient care: narrative review with clinical checklist.Postgraduate medical journal · 2016Review
- Hospital policies for opioid use disorder treatment: A policy content analysis and environmental scan checklist.General hospital psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTreatment with an opioid agonist such as methadone or buprenorphine is the standard of care for opioid use disorder. Persons with opioid use disorder are frequently hospitalized, and may be undertreated due to provider misinformation regarding the legality of prescribing methadone for inpatients. Using a case-based review, this article aims to describe effective management of active opioid withdrawal and ongoing opioid use disorder using methadone or buprenorphine among acutely ill, hospitalized patients.
methodsWe reviewed pertinent medical and legal literature and consulted with national legal experts regarding methadone for opioid withdrawal and opioid maintenance therapy in hospitalized, general medical and surgical patients, and describe a real-life example of successful implementation of inpatient methadone for these purposes.
resultsPatients with opioid use disorders can be effectively and legally initiated on methadone maintenance therapy or buprenorphine during an inpatient hospitalization by clinical providers and successfully transitioned to an outpatient methadone maintenance or buprenorphine clinic after discharge for ongoing treatment.
conclusionsInpatient methadone or buprenorphine prescribing is safe and evidence-based, and can be used to effectively treat opioid withdrawal and also serves as a bridge to outpatient treatment of opioid use disorders.
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