Opioid Use Disorder Education for Students and the Future of Opioid Overdose Treatment

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a major public health concern in the United States. The opioid crisis has taken hundreds of thousands of lives in the past 20 years, and it is predicted to take millions more. With the rising death tolls, it is essential that health care providers are able to use proper...

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Published inJMIR medical education Vol. 8; no. 3; p. e37081
Main Authors Balapal, Neha, Ankem, Amala, Shyamsundar, Saishravan, He, Shuhan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto JMIR Publications 01.07.2022
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Confidence
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Drug overdose
Health care industry
Health services
Learning
Medical education
Medical students
Mental health care
Narcotics
Nurse practitioners
Pandemics
Patients
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Summary:Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a major public health concern in the United States. The opioid crisis has taken hundreds of thousands of lives in the past 20 years, and it is predicted to take millions more. With the rising death tolls, it is essential that health care providers are able to use proper tools to treat OUD efficiently and effectively through medication-assisted treatment (MAT), particularly buprenorphine. Despite changes to buprenorphine regulations making it more accessible, clinicians have been slow to use buprenorphine to treat OUD. We believe that training student clinicians in evidence-based MAT and buprenorphine practices will address the training and competence barriers that hinder clinicians from prescribing buprenorphine to treat OUD. Students are in an ideal position to receive and benefit from this training and influence the medical community to better treat OUD.
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ISSN:2369-3762
2369-3762
DOI:10.2196/37081