Teens in residential drug rehabs often don't get the most effective opioid treatment

Just a quarter of residential addiction treatment centers for teenagers offer buprenorphine, the 'gold standard' of treatment, new research finds.

Just a quarter of residential addiction treatment centers for teenagers offer buprenorphine, the "gold standard" of treatment, new research finds.

"The risk of mortality is very high," said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse."But we know that one of the best interventions for preventing those overdoses is administration of buprenorphine." NIDA helped fund the new research. "We chose to focus on residential treatment programs because these are typically the places that take care of kids with the most severe opioid use disorder," Korthuis said.

The findings are"very concerning," said Annie Peters, director of research and education at the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, a nonprofit group that provides guidance for such facilities nationwide.

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