Racial, ethnic, sex differences in methadone-involved overdose deaths before, after federal policy change expanding take-home methadone doses

JAMA Health Forum

2023-06-09

(Press-News.org) About The Study: In this study of monthly methadone-involved overdose deaths, the take-home policy may have helped reduce deaths for Black and Hispanic men but had no association with deaths of Black or Hispanic women or white men or women. The urgency of the overdose crisis requires that national methadone policy debates and decisions address the heterogeneity of people in treatment; relaxing methadone restrictions may help some particularly at-risk groups.

Authors: Rebecca Arden Harris, M.D., M.Sc., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.1235)

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Racial, ethnic, sex differences in methadone-involved overdose deaths before, after federal policy change expanding take-home methadone doses

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