THE BOTTOM LINE | Despite medication being the gold standard for treating opioid use disorder, nearly two-thirds of young adult patients with OUD had no such documented treatment, according to a study of more than 300,000 youth patients between...
The 2019 report on opioid-related overdose deaths in Massachusetts sparked a glimmer of hope that there had been progress in the fight against the overdose crisis. The preliminary data showed that there were 2,015 confirmed and estimated opioid-related overdose...
Like so much of the country, Massachusetts has been ravaged by the opioid epidemic. Since 2000, annual overdose deaths involving opioids have increased fivefold in the state, with a dramatic spike over the past five years driven by the spread of the highly lethal...