Dr. Mark Gold's Research You Can Use Recently released and revised medication-assisted treatments (MAT) have been an important area of research to counter the present opioid epidemic. MATs have helped patients in their recovery. It is the administration of opioid agonists (methadone, buprenorphine, oxycodone), antagonists (naltrexone, naloxone), and combinations of the two (buprenorphine/naloxone). While shown [...]
Dr. Mark Gold's Research You Can Use The devastating repercussions exerted by the opioid overdose epidemic plaguing the nation has been nothing short of crippling. Opioid overdoses presently claim an average of 115 lives a day. In an article published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Jeffrey Samet, chief of general internal medicine [...]
Dr. Mark Gold's Research You Can Use Opioid agonists like buprenorphine/naloxone have proven to be highly effective, evidence-based treatments for treating opioid use disorders. Yet, these are sometimes diverted for non-medical use, indicating a significant shortage in treatment capacity and inaccessibility of existing services. This was found in a recent study aimed at answering the [...]
Dr. Mark Gold's Research You Can Use As more evidential support builds up for the key role played by the dysregulation in the opioid system in underpinning addiction, a recent study investigated the endogenous opioid tone in alcohol dependence for the first time. Comparable to results from previous research based upon the blunted dexamphetamine-induced opioid [...]
Dr. Mark Gold's Research You Can Use Opioid addiction has become America’s leading public health crisis of epidemic proportions. Stanford University’s recent analysis of the present treatment, prevention, and public health viewpoint suggested that almost 510,000 deaths resulting from prescription opioids and street heroin are to be expected from 2016 to 2025 in the US [...]
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