Primary care physicians' preparedness to treat opioid use disorder in the United States: A cross-sectional survey.

Background: Efforts to increase opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment have focused on primary care. We assessed primary care physicians' preparedness to identify and treat individuals with OUD and barriers to increasing buprenorphine prescribing.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey from January-August 2020 which assessed perceptions of the opioid epidemic; comfort screening, diagnosing, and treating individuals with OUD with medications; and barriers to obtaining a buprenorphine waiver and prescribing buprenorphine in their practice.

Validation of the Opioid Overdose Risk Behavior Scale, version 2 (ORBS-2).

Objective: To examine the factor structure of a revised and expanded opioid overdose risk behavior scale and assess its associations with known overdose indicators and other clinical constructs.

Background: Opioid-related overdose remains high in the U.S.

Trends in Heroin Treatment Admissions in the United States by Race, Sex, and Age.

This cross-sectional study examines trends in heroin treatment admission rates in the United States by race, sex, and age from 2000 to 2017.