High hopes for buprenorphine, an effective treatment for opioid addiction, have been tempered by a messy reality: health complications and deaths, unscrupulous doctors and a reputation as a street drug. (Source: NYT Health)
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Mind Meets Body: Developing a Psychology Internship in a Family Medicine Residency Program (Raymond Hornyak PhD)
Mind Meets Body:
Creating a Primary Care Psychology
Internship in a Family Medicine
Residency Program
Introduction:
Multiple studies have identified the benefits of providing behavioral health services to primary care patients. Decreased length of stay, fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits, less frequent office visits, fewer prescriptions, and improvement in health outcomes have been associated with the availability of a behavioral health professional as part of an integrative primary care network. Family physicians have found behavioral health colleagues a valuable resource in which to refer their “difficult” patients, as well as those who could benefit from learning to decrease pain behavior, reduce stress, and motivating patients to adopt a healthier lifestyle.
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Baseline characteristics and treatment outcomes in prescription opioid dependent patients with and without co-occurring psychiatric disorder.
Conclusions: Prescription opioid-dependent patients with a co-occurring psychiatric disorder had a better response to buprenorphine-naloxone treatment despite demonstrating greater impairment at baseline. Additional research is needed to determine the mechanism of this finding and to adapt treatments to address this population.
PMID: 24219166 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
Baseline characteristics and treatment outcomes in prescription opioid dependent patients with and without co-occurring psychiatric disorder.
Conclusions: Prescription opioid-dependent patients with a co-occurring psychiatric disorder had a better response to buprenorphine-naloxone treatment despite demonstrating greater impairment at baseline. Additional research is needed to determine the mechanism of this finding and to adapt treatments to address this population.
PMID: 24219166 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
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