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NYU Langone Health: Medication Treatments Led to 80 Percent Lower Risk of Fatal Overdose for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder
February 26, 2020
NEW YORK, Feb. 26 -- NYU Langone Health, an academic medical center affiliated with New York University, issued the following news release:

People with opioid use disorder (OUD) receiving treatment with opioid agonists (medications such as methadone or buprenorphine) had an 80 percent lower risk of dying from an opioid overdose compared with people in treatment without the use of medications.

The new findings, published online February 25 in the journal Addiction, are a . . .

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