Evidence Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research

07/24/2019

Western Governors University

(A1) Healthcare problem Our country is currently amid an Opioid use epidemic. In 2016 more than 42,000 people died in the United States from opiate overdoses. A variety of methods have been developed to curtail this crisis, including strategies like incarceration, counseling, and abstinence programs. One method that has been showing promise is Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT). According to (Moore, D. J., 2018) those who receive MAT are 75% less likely to have an addiction-related death than those who do not. Despite these short-term benefits, the long-term efficacy of MAT on opiate users is still vague. Most drugs in the US have rarely had studies that lasted...