Medication-Assisted Treatment and Opioid Use Before and After Overdose in Pennsylvania Medicaid.

Frazier, Winfred; Cochran, Gerald; Lo-Ciganic, Wei-Hsuan; Gellad, Walid F; Gordon, Adam J; Chang, Chung-Chou H; Donohue, Julie M · JAMA · 2017

retrospective_cohort · Level III

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Abstract

This study uses Medicaid data to compare prescription opioid use, duration of opioid use, and rates of medication-assisted treatment (buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone) among enrollees before and after an overdose event.

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