The impact of benzodiazepine use in patients enrolled in opioid agonist therapy in Northern and rural Ontario

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• 作者：Alexandra M. Franklyn ; Joseph K. Eibl ; Graham Gauthier…
• 关键词：Opioid agonist therapy ; Treatment retention ; Northern Ontario ; Benzodiazepines ; Concurrent drug use
• 刊名：Harm Reduction Journal
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：14
• 期：1
• 全文大小：653KB
• 刊物主题：Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Social Policy; Social Work; Health Psychology;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1477-7517
• 卷排序：14

文摘

BackgroundBenzodiazepine use is common among patients in opioid agonist therapy; this puts patients at an increased risk of overdose and death. In this study, we examine the impact of baseline and ongoing benzodiazepine use, and whether patients are more likely to terminate treatment with increasing proportion of benzodiazepine positive urine samples. We also study whether benzodiazepine use differs by geographic location.