Commentary on Betts et al. (2016): Polysubstance use and opioid substitution therapy among people who inject drugs

Paul T Harrell; Hongyun Fu

doi:10.1111/add.13417

Commentary on Betts et al. (2016): Polysubstance use and opioid substitution therapy among people who inject drugs

Addiction. 2016 Jul;111(7):1224-5. doi: 10.1111/add.13417.

Authors

Paul T Harrell^{1

2}, Hongyun Fu³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA. harrelpt@evms.edu.
² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA. harrelpt@evms.edu.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA.

PMID: 27273387
DOI: 10.1111/add.13417

No abstract available

Keywords: Causal inference; Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS); clinical trials; heroin; opioid substitution therapy; people who inject drugs (PWID); polysubstance use; prescription drug abuse; propensity score matching.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Comment

MeSH terms

Humans
Opiate Substitution Treatment*
Risk-Taking
Substance Abuse, Intravenous*

Grants and funding

R03 CA195124/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States