A new global review has found that receiving Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) is associated with a lower risk of multiple causes of death among people with opioid dependence. The review, published in JAMA, found that people with opioid dependence were less likely to experience overdose-related, suicide, alcohol-related, cancer, and cardiovascular-related mortality while receiving OAT. Opioid crisis...
by University of Bristol Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new global review has found that receiving Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) is associated with a lower risk of multiple causes of death among people with opioid dependence. The review found that people with opioid dependence were less likely to experience overdose-related suicide, alcohol-related cancer, and cardiovascular-related mortality...
