"They make it too hard and too many hoops to jump": system and organizational barriers to drug treatment during epidemic rates of opioid overdose.  Dickson-Gomez J, Krechel S, Ohlrich J, Montaque HDG, Weeks M, Li J, Havens J, Spector A. …

Evaluating Barriers to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment From Patients' Perspectives.  Nguyen CMT, Kubiak G, Dixit N, Young SA, Hayes JR.  PRiMER. 2024 Feb 19;8:11. doi: 10.22454/PRiMER.2024.458349. PMID: 38406240; PMCID: PMC10887383. https…

Canadian Addiction Treatment Centre (CATC) opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada.  Morin KA, Tatangelo M, Marsh D.  BMJ Open. 2024 Feb 24;14(2):e080790. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080790. PMID: 38401902; PMCID: PMC10895228…

Overview of best practices for buprenorphine initiation in the emergency department.  Hughes T, Nasser N, Mitra A.  Int J Emerg Med. 2024 Feb 19;17(1):23. doi: 10.1186/s12245-024-00593-6. PMID: 38373992; PMCID: PMC10877824. https://www…

USA. The War on Recovery: How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic The opioid overdose epidemic has burned through the U.S. for nearly 30 years. Yet for all that time, the country has had tools that are hig…

Impact of the Communities That HEAL Intervention on Buprenorphine-Waivered Practitioners and Buprenorphine Prescribing: A Prespecified Secondary Analysis of the HCS Randomized Clinical Trial.  Stopka TJ, Babineau DC, Gibson EB…