In cooperation with colleagues at Sørlandet Hospital, researchers at SERAF have investigated changes in substance use among patients in opioid maintenance treatment (OMT).
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The research article "Mortality in women with a history of incarceration in Norway: A 20-year National Cohort Study," published in The International Journal of Epidemiology, written by Vegard G. Svendsen, Anne Bukten, Torbjørn Skardhamar, and Marianne Riksheim Stavseth, was the winner of the Article of the Year award by the Norwegian Epidemiological Association.
A new collaboration between SERAF and Korfor shows that general practitioners are the most cautious when it comes to prescribing opioids for long-term pain management.
Researchers at SERAF have contributed a new chapter on analgesic opioids to the second edition of the book Drug Utilization Research: Methods and Applications.
Previous work from the POINT project has shown that low socioeconomic status on various factors such as education, income, and unemployment leads to a higher risk of developing prolonged opioid use.
SERAF has published a report with a midway evaluation of a pilot project for heroin-assisted treatment in Oslo and Bergen in Norway.
As part of the Norwegian National Overdose Strategy, Naloxone nasal spray will be distributed for free at more than 350 distribution points in over 100 municipalities.
A recently published SERAF article in 'Addiction' covers nearly 20,000 Norwegian individuals with opioid use disorder, incorporating data from the Norwegian Cancer Registry and the Cause of Death Registry.
Over 400 Norwegian responses have already been received, and the European online drug use survey is still open.
Thursday June 27th Øystein Bruun Ericson will defend his PhD thesis at UiO's Gamle Festsal.
Ann Tarja Karlsson and Nicoline Lokdam present their PhD defenses on June 6th and 7th respectively.
In a recent article in the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, emergency physicians and researchers point out how health data currently lies unused on various servers, and how the absence of mobile technology for first responders is an obstacle to early identification of overdose trends.
Led by SERAF and HDir, along with European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), Norway joins the European Web Survey on Drugs this year.
SERAF researchers Gabrielle Welle-Strand and Rebecca McDonald, in collaboration with Marianne Pierron, Ida Kristine Olsen, and Ronny Bjørnestad from proLAR Nett, have published a paper based on data from the 2021 proLAR Nett patient satisfaction survey.
Researcher Anne Bukten and Professor Thomas Clausen at SERAF along with colleague Marianne Riksheim Stavseth at OUS have just published their research in the journal The Lancet.
PriSUD project's recent results show that 60% of inmates in Norwegian prisons had at least one form of mental disorder during the 10-year observation period (2010-2019).
In a recently published article, SERAF researchers Rebecca McDonald, Desiree Eide, Svetlana Skurtveit and Thomas Clausen examined the opioid epidemic in North America as a man-made public health crisis.
Along with researchers at Sørlandet Hospital, SERAF has contributed to a new article on somatic symptoms among Norwegian patients in opioid maintenance treatment.
Researchers at the Oslo University Hospital and SERAF have interviewed individuals who had experienced a serious surgical trauma in the period after discharge from the hospital.