A Retrospective 4-year Outcome Study of Veterans Admitted to an Acute Inpatient Detoxification Unit for Opioid Use Disorder.

CONCLUSION AND SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE: OUD carries a shockingly high lethality in Veterans requiring inpatient admission for opioid withdrawal, particularly when there are untreated comorbid psychiatric conditions. RR and MAT are correlated to lower all-cause mortality in this population and should be highly utilized. Given the extremely high mortality, intensive system-wide interventions are needed for the care of Veterans with OUD. On the basis of the reduced predicted mortality with RR and MAT, further research into novel MATs as well as refining RR programs should be a major focus. (Am J Addict 2019:1-6). PMID: 31067001 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: American Journal on Addictions - May 7, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Li KJ, Smedberg DL, DeLisi LE Tags: Am J Addict Source Type: research