Mortality Among People With Opioid Use Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Conclusions: Individuals with OUD carry a high risk of all-cause and overdose-specific mortality. Potentially modifiable risk factors, such as HIV and injection drug use, were predictive of mortality risk and are amenable to global efforts aiming to improve access to OUD treatment and targeted harm reduction efforts.
Source: Journal of Addiction Medicine - Category: Addiction Tags: Original Research Source Type: research