Getting Help - Navigating Substance Abuse Treatment for Kenosha County Residents
Information and Resources specific for Kenosha County can be found in the 2018 Happenings Publication "The Opioid Epidemic - There is Hope". Link: anyflip.com/mnnh/tazp/
Copy of the publication:hope_book_2018_|_anyflip.pdf
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Copy of the publication:hope_book_2018_|_anyflip.pdf
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Using a betting game to predict opioid relapse
From STAT Morning Rounds
In America’s opioid epidemic, even those who are able to access treatment are often at a high risk for relapsing. To try to predict when those episodes might occur, New York University psychiatrists turned to a game that involved betting, with the idea that the willingness to take risks might correlate with a return to opioid use. Sure enough, the results they published in a new study showed that among 70 people receiving treatment for opioid use disorder in a community-based center, their willingness to make risky bets in the game was associated with increased odds of relapse. Though these preliminary results were observed in only a small group of patients, the researchers are now hoping to turn this game into an app. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2757378
From STAT Morning Rounds
In America’s opioid epidemic, even those who are able to access treatment are often at a high risk for relapsing. To try to predict when those episodes might occur, New York University psychiatrists turned to a game that involved betting, with the idea that the willingness to take risks might correlate with a return to opioid use. Sure enough, the results they published in a new study showed that among 70 people receiving treatment for opioid use disorder in a community-based center, their willingness to make risky bets in the game was associated with increased odds of relapse. Though these preliminary results were observed in only a small group of patients, the researchers are now hoping to turn this game into an app. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2757378
