Association of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment With Alcohol-Related Acute Events.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) and co-occurring alcohol use disorder (AUD) are understudied and undertreated. It is unknown whether the use of medications to treat OUD is associated with reduced risk of alcohol-related morbidity.

Objective

To determine whether the use of OUD medications is associated with decreased risk for alcohol-related falls, injuries, and poisonings in persons with OUD with and without co-occurring AUD.

Design, setting, and participants

This recurrent-event, case-control, cohort study used prescription claims from IBM MarketScan insurance databases from January 1, 2006, to December 31, 2016. The sample included persons aged 12 to 64 years in the US with an OUD diagnosis and taking OUD medication who had at least 1 alcohol-relat

SUBMITTER: Xu KY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7905500 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature