This document provides information for employers wishing to assist or support workers with opioid use disorder (OUD), in addition to providing general information about the medication-assisted treatment (MAT), also known as medication-based treatment. The opioid overdose epidemic continues to claim lives across the country with a record 47,600 overdose deaths in 2017. (This number represents 67.8% of the 70,237 overdose deaths from all drugs) [CDC 2018a]. More Americans now die every year from drug overdoses than in motor vehicle crashes [CDC 2016]. The crisis is taking an especially devastating toll on certain parts of the U.S. workforce.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
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