Title |
Too much or never enough: a response to Treatment of opioid disorders in Canada: looking at the ‘other epidemic’
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Published in |
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, September 2016
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DOI | 10.1186/s13011-016-0076-z |
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Authors |
Joseph K. Eibl, Kristen A. Morin-Taus, David C. Marsh |
Abstract |
Prescription opioid (PO) misuse is a major health concern across North America, and it is the primary cause of preventable death for the 18-35 year old demographic. Medication assisted therapy including methadone and buprenorphine, is the standard of care for patients with opioid-dependence. Moreover, both of these medications are recognized as essential medicines by World Health Organization. In Ontario Canada, the availability of medication assisted therapy has expanded substantially, with almost a ten-fold increase number of patients accessing methadone in Ontario in the past decade. In their manuscript, Fischer et. al. (2016), present a view that expansion of opioid maintenance therapy (OMT) has outpaced true patient need and alternate strategies should be considered as first-line treatments. Here, we present a countering perspective-that medication assisted therapy, along with other harm reduction strategies, should be widely available to all opioid-dependent people as first-line treatments. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 9 | 41% |
Canada | 8 | 36% |
Unknown | 5 | 23% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 15 | 68% |
Scientists | 3 | 14% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 14% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 48 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 10 | 21% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 13% |
Other | 5 | 10% |
Researcher | 4 | 8% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 8% |
Other | 5 | 10% |
Unknown | 14 | 29% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 23% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 13% |
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 3 | 6% |
Social Sciences | 3 | 6% |
Psychology | 3 | 6% |
Other | 9 | 19% |
Unknown | 13 | 27% |