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Buprenorphine now replaces methadone as the most common medicine for opioid dependence’: 10-year trends in opioid agonist treatment medicines in Australia

National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre Blog

Kendal Chidwick NDARC’s Kendal Chidwick discusses the findings from a recently published study that examined how patterns of opioid agonist treatment medicines have changed over the past decade. Other changes around this time aimed at improving treatment accessibility included increased use of take-home doses and telehealth appointments.

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Chemotherapy-free treatment for patients with blood cancer

Drug Target Review

An important research area at AbbVie involves blood cancers, where our ultimate goal is to transform standards of care across these diseases and advance a dynamic cancer research and treatment pipeline. 2 However, treatment options were still limited and often came with severe side effects.

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Hepatitis C Treatments: A Comprehensive Guide

Drugs.com

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there were nearly 68,000 new cases of acute hepatitis C in 2020 and over 107,000 newly reported cases of chronic hepatitis C? THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 -- Did you know the U.S. To help you.

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Receipt of Opioid Use Disorder Treatments Prior to Fatal Overdoses and Comparison to No Treatment

Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

Receipt of Opioid Use Disorder Treatments Prior to Fatal Overdoses and Comparison to No Treatment "The findings revealed that exposures to MOUD, even if not continued throughout the six-month exposure period was associated with reduced risk of a fatal poisoning compared to non-MOUD forms of treatment and no treatment exposure.

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Approvals in the Crazy Year of 2020

Eye on FDA

During 2020, FDA was able to approve 53 – not surpassing the 2018 all time record of 59, but certainly an admirable second place. Notably, the 2020 NME approvals included 22 related to oncology, with 2 new GIST treatments, 3 in breast cancer and 2 approvals in prostate cancer. That, however, was not really the case.

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Fewer than half of new drugs add substantial therapeutic value over existing treatments

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

But a study published by The BMJ today finds that less than half of approved first indications for new drugs in the US and Europe between 2011 and 2020 add substantial therapeutic value over existing treatments […]

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2020 OPDP Enforcement

Eye on FDA

Looking now to a review of enforcement by the Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) in 2020, we see a different picture. The collection of letters issued by OPDP during 2020 can be found here. We instead see the same pace as we have the past several years – that is anemic levels of enforcement.

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