Opioid Addiction: A Review of Long-Term Patterns and Consequences

“People addicted to opioids face difficult challenges—medical, legal, and personal. What risks of disease and death do they face? What factors make it more—or less—likely that they’ll ever be able to quit? And what are their chances of ever remaining abstinent? To answer these questions, a team at the University of California, Los Angeles, studied approximately 250 articles covering long-term patterns of stability and change across the life span of people with opioid dependence.”

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Addiction Treatment Forum – 10/9/2015