Briefly, what does the body of Scientific Evidence show regarding effect i haveness of met doen and buprenorphine in treatment of opioid abuse disorders . The research has shown, has shown it not just for methadone and buprenorphine, and naloxone, as part of a comprehensive program for treatment of opioid addiction are quite effective and significantly improve outcomes of individuals being able to stay on one hand ab stinent from the drug or to decrease likelihood of relapsing, also protects them against adverse outcome such as overdose. So in light of those studies you also said in your testimony that existing evidence based prevention and treatment strategies are highly underutilized across the United States, and last week we had an expert tell the panel that very few patients with opioid addiction today receive treatments that have been proven most effective. He was talking about the rapid detox, followed by abstinence based treatment. I wonder if you can help understand this. Why d
Treatment of opioid abuse disorders . The research has shown, has shown it not just for methadone and buprenorphine, and naloxone, as part of a comprehensive program for treatment of opioid addiction are quite effective and significantly improve outcomes of individuals being able to stay on one hand ab stinent from the drug or to decrease likelihood of relapsing, also protects them against adverse outcome such as overdose. So in light of those studies you also said in your testimony that existing evidence based prevention and treatment strategies are highly underutilized across the United States, and last week we had an expert tell the panel that very few patients with opioid addiction today receive treatments that have been proven most effective. He was talking about the rapid detox, followed by abstinence based treatment. I wonder if you can help understand this. Why do we have a situation where people are not getting evidence based treatment . It is a complex problem. There are many
Try to keep any kind of evaluation out of this. So the marine corps has done a bunch of different studies and research. They began with a actually, they began with the infantry officer course which they opened to women in 2012 and asked for volunteers. Women, if you want to come to try out the infantry officer course, youre invited to attend. At the same time that they were doing that, they also began developing a set of combat proxy tests. The combat proxy test, they were six largely upper body based i should say Upper Body Strength based proxy tests that they evaluated the performance of 409 women and 379 female marines against and what they found from this combat proxy test was that about well not about, but 66 of the very good performers were men and 34 were women, and then the highest performing categories, it was 92 were men and 8 were women. So this initial Screening Test that they developed showed that there was certainly a percentage of women that fell into the good and the ve
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