Opioid use disorder: current trends and potential treatments
Frontiers in Public Health January 25, 2024 Yu Kyung Lee, Mark S. Gold, Kenneth Blum et al. 45 citations
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a major public health threat, contributing to morbidity and mortality from addiction, overdose, and related medical conditions. Despite our increasing knowledge about the pathophysiology and existing medical treatments of OUD, it has remained a relapsing and remitting disorder for decades, with rising deaths from overdoses, rather than declining. The COVID-19...