{"id":177197,"date":"2023-12-01T10:28:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/cancer-patients-with-opioid-use-disorder-face-obstacles-to-treatment"},"modified":"2023-12-01T10:28:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:28:34","slug":"cancer-patients-with-opioid-use-disorder-face-obstacles-to-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/cancer-patients-with-opioid-use-disorder-face-obstacles-to-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Cancer patients with opioid use disorder face obstacles to treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cancer-patients-with-opioid-use-disorder-face-obstacles-to-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A cancer diagnosis can greatly disrupt treatment with methadone, a medication used to treat patients with opioid use disorder, according to a perspective piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/10.1056\/NEJMp2310123\">published<\/a> in the <i>New England Journal of Medicine<\/i> by University of Pittsburgh researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Through the lens of a specific patient treated with methadone for many years and later diagnosed with head and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/neck+cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neck cancer<\/a>, the authors discuss how segregating methadone distribution from general medical care is problematic and emphasize the need to integrate opioid use disorder treatment and improve <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/patient+access\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">patient access<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before his <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a> diagnosis, the patient was afforded a 28-day supply of take-home methadone doses, which he self-administered and, per clinic and federal regulations, returned to the clinic every 28 days for monitoring and refills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cancer diagnosis can greatly disrupt treatment with methadone, a medication used to treat patients with opioid use disorder, according to a perspective piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine by University of Pittsburgh researchers. Through the lens of a specific patient treated with methadone for many years and later diagnosed with head [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}