Improving Opioid Dependency Treatment

Curbing prescription opioid dependency

Treatment Practice and Research Issues in Improving Opioid Treatment Outcomes

Providers of treatment for opioid addiction have entered a new era of accountability, as Federal and State regulators increasingly demand objective evidence of treatment effectiveness. Since the length of treatment is associated with success of treatment, opioid treatment programs that demonstrate an ability to retain patients can make a strong case that they are effective. The challenge to opi...

Opioid dependency rehabilitation with the opioid maintenance treatment programme - a qualitative study from the clients’ perspective

BACKGROUND Opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) is the most widely used treatment for opioid dependence. The opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) programme represents an opportunity for people who are opioid users to minimize the many negative health and societal outcomes associated with opioid use through meeting the physiological need of their bodies for opioids. The purpose of this study is to s...

Improving Dependency Pairs

The dependency pair approach [2, 12, 13] is one of the most powerful techniques for termination and innermost termination proofs of term rewrite systems (TRSs). For any TRS, it generates inequality constraints that have to be satisfied by weakly monotonic well-founded orders. We improve the dependency pair approach by considerably reducing the number of constraints produced for (innermost) term...

Diagnosis and Pharmacologic Management of Opioid Dependency

Hospital Physician October 2007 15 O pioid dependency is a common problem that remains underdiagnosed and undertreated in the United States. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that in 2002 approximately 2.5 million Americans used pain relievers, mostly opioid agonists (eg, oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, methadone), for nonmedical use. Approximately 3.7 million Americans hav...