Gaps in addiction medicine training are a reason for poor substance use care in North America. (more…)
Educational studies: What can Medical Trainees learn in an Inner-City Hospital?
Does this opioid naïve patient really need potent opioids? Think twice
Think Twice, exercise caution and generally avoid making assumptions about patient risk of subsequent prescription opioid use disorder, write authors of a recent editorial. (more…)
Moving on: helping young people
In this 2009 Insight article, Gemma Turner, Cobh Community Based Drugs Worker, provides a brief history of the project while Jano Klimas gives a sense of the impact of the youth initiative from its evaluation.
Expanding opioid agonist therapy while learning from HIV/AIDS
Accessing opioid agonist therapy (OAT) and maintaining good adherence faces many barriers which can be geographical, financial, regulatory, situational or logistic. This post elaborates on the ideas from a recent freely-available commentary published in the journal Addiction.
Finding good endpoints for diagnostic test accuracy reviews on substance use
Diagnostic test accuracy reviews increasingly are being used in substance use research, yet the majority of the studies considered in these reviews do not account appropriately for the primary endpoints of interest. (more…)