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ArticleJournal of substance abuse treatment2021

Unprecedented need and recommendations for harnessing data to guide future policy and practice for opioid use disorder treatment following COVID-19.

Nicholas A Livingston, Victoria Ameral, Anne N Banducci, Risa B Weisberg

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Article in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nicholas A LivingstonNational Center for PTSD, Behavioral Sciences Division, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America; U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America. Electronic address: nicholas.livingston@va.gov.
Victoria AmeralEdith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA, United States of America.
Anne N BanducciU.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America; National Center for PTSD, Women's Health Sciences Division, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America.
Risa B WeisbergU.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Family Medicine, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic struck in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic. To offset disruption to life-saving treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), several federal agencies granted exemptions to existing federal regulations. This included loosening restrictions on medications for OUD (MOUD), including methadone and buprenorphine. In this commentary, we briefly review policy and practice guidelines for treating OUD prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We then outline specific MOUD treatment policy and practice exemptions that went into effect in February and March 2020, and discuss the ways in which these unprecedented changes have dramatically changed MOUD treatment. Given the unprecedented nature of these changes, and unknown outcomes to date, we advocate for a data-driven approach to guide future policy and practice recommendations regarding MOUD. We outline several critical clinical, research, and policy questions that can inform MOUD treatment in a post-COVID-19 era.

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Big DataBuprenorphineCOVID-19Drug OverdoseHealth PolicyHumansMethadoneNarcotic AntagonistsNarcoticsOpiate Substitution TreatmentOpioid-Related DisordersPandemicsUnited StatesBuprenorphineMethadoneNarcotic AntagonistsNarcoticsCOVID-19MOUDOpioid use disorderOUDPolicy

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PMID33303255
PMCPMC7973255

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