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September-October 2024

Interventions and Assessments

  • Implementation of a Primary Care Nurse Care Manager Model Increased Opioid Use Disorder Treatment but Did Not Decrease Acute Care Utilization
  • For Individuals Who Do Not Initially Achieve Smoking Cessation With Varenicline, Increasing the Dose May Help

Health Outcomes

  • Study Design May Bias the Estimation of the Health Effects of Low-dose Alcohol Consumption
  • Is There a Dose-dependent Positive Association Between Alcohol Consumption and Suicide Mortality?
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Remain Effective as Highly Potent Synthetic Opioids Permeate North American Illicit Drug Supplies
  • Higher Buprenorphine Dose in First Month of Treatment for OUD Associated with Decreased Mortality

Prescription Drugs and Pain

  • The 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines May Have Negatively Impacted the Treatment of Individuals With Sickle Cell Disease

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