Opioid dependency treatment

Patient Access / Caregiver / Physician / or Counselor 

The Problem

Opiate overdose deaths are increasing in the US and worldwide particularly with the increased availability of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. A 30 percent  annual increase to 100,000 opioid overdose deaths occurred in the US from May 2020 to April 2021.

1 million US patients/yr receive outpatient treatment for opioid use disorder.  Our site provides telemedical solutions for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of opioid use disorder.

Neuro-metabolic theory for Opioid Use Disorder

Prevention of Opioid Use Disorder

Prevention can be accomplished by risk analysis looking at  :

Predictive models have been developed to determine the propensity for opioid use disorder as well as its diagnosis.  The predicted propensity value can be used to target high risk  groups with evidence based interventions as well as personalize individual intervention programs .  Start Analysis of your risk factors Now or help analyze someone else’s.

Diagnosis and treatment of opioid use disorder

Opioid addiction therapy includes :

• medication (methadone, buprenorphine or naltrexone)

• point of care testing for methadone, EDDP,  Hep C Antibodies, Syphilis, Tuberculosis, Reflex Hep C viral load and genotype analysis,  HIV antibody,  HIV viral load,  CD4/CD8 Ratio, and QTc from EKG.

• one on one  and group counseling

• remote vital sign monitoring

• remote medication adherence monitoring and relapse detection,

• companionship therapy,

• personalized nutritional supplements and  intestinal bacteriotherapy,

• opioid vaccines,

• vagus nerve stimulation using the NSS-2 Bridge device.

• psilocybin or ketamine treatment for those with depression

Literature and Related Sites