Comparing presumptive with direct-to-definitive drug testing in oral fluid vs. urine for a US national sample of individuals misusing drugs

S Magura, MJ Lee-Easton, R Abu-Obaid… - Drug and alcohol …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background The aims are to compare the results of presumptive drug testing with
confirmation of positives vs. direct-to-definitive drug testing, combined with investigation of …

[HTML][HTML] Racial, ethnic, and sex differences in methadone-involved overdose deaths before and after the US Federal policy change expanding take-home methadone …

RA Harris, JA Long, Y Bao, DS Mandell - JAMA Health Forum, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance In March 2020, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) permitted states to relax restrictions on take-home methadone doses for …

Cost-effectiveness of increasing buprenorphine treatment initiation, duration, and capacity among individuals who use opioids

AL Claypool, C DiGennaro, WA Russell… - JAMA Health …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Buprenorphine is an effective and cost-effective medication to treat opioid use
disorder (OUD), but is not readily available to many people with OUD in the US. The current …

Characterization of carfentanil and thiofentanil using surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy and density functional theory

R Öberg, L Landström, E Gracia‐Espino… - Journal of Raman …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fentanyls are synthetic opioids up to 10,000 times more potent than morphine. Although
initially developed for medical applications, fentanyl and its analogues have recently grown …

Endogenous opiates and behavior: 2023

RJ Bodnar - Peptides, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper is the forty-sixth consecutive installment of the annual anthological review of
research concerning the endogenous opioid system, summarizing articles published during …