Emory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center: Patients Battling Opioid Addiction in Central Appalachia Face Issues Accessing Drug Treatment
August 21, 2020
August 21, 2020
ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 21 -- Emory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center issued the following news release:
Despite its proven effectiveness as a treatment for opioid use disorders (OUD), buprenorphine is not reaching patients in central Appalachia, the epicenter of the opioid crisis in the United States, according to investigators from the Emory Rollins School of Public Health.
The findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine (https://www.nej . . .
Despite its proven effectiveness as a treatment for opioid use disorders (OUD), buprenorphine is not reaching patients in central Appalachia, the epicenter of the opioid crisis in the United States, according to investigators from the Emory Rollins School of Public Health.
The findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine (https://www.nej . . .