Ukrainian refugees face high barriers to opioid use disorder treatment

The most effective treatment to care for people with opioid use disorder are opioid agonist therapies (OAT), including medications like methadone or buprenorphine. But interrupting this therapy may result in severe symptoms of withdrawal, relapse to injected opioids, overdose, and death.

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