Sex disparities in outcome of medication-assisted therapy of opioid use disorder: Nationally representative study.

ABSTRACT:

Question

The opioid epidemic causes massive morbidity, and males have substantially greater overdose mortality rates than females. It is unclear whether there are sex-related disparities at different stages in the trajectory of opioid use disorders, in "real world" settings.

Goal

To determine sex disparities in non-medical opioid use (NMOU) at the end of outpatient medication-assisted treatment (MAT), using nationally representative data.

Design

Observational epidemiological study of publicly funded outpatient MAT programs in the national "Treatment episode data set-discharges" (TEDS-D) for 2019.

Participants

Persons aged ≥18 in their first treatment episode, in outpatient MAT for use of heroin or other opioids (N=11,549). The binary outcome was presence/absenc

SUBMITTER: Butelman ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11469362 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature