Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2024) Preventing opioid misuse and treating opioid use disorders in older adults. Rockville, MD: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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Opioid misuse and use disorders among older adults are a growing public health problem that is often overlooked and undertreated. This increasing misuse and need for treatment can be attributed to several cultural, physiological, and systemic influences. This brochure discusses age-appropriate OUD prevention, treatment, and recovery approaches and provides key facts, considerations, program examples, and resources.
B Substances > Opioids (opiates)
HJ Treatment or recovery method > Substance disorder treatment method > Substance replacement method (substitution) > Opioid agonist treatment (methadone maintenance / buprenorphine)
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Prevention approach
T Demographic characteristics > Elderly / Older person
VA Geographic area > United States
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