Point/counterpoint: Should full agonist opioid medications be offered to hospitalized patients for management of opioid withdrawal?

J Hosp Med. 2024 Apr;19(4):339-343. doi: 10.1002/jhm.13238. Epub 2023 Nov 29.

Sam J Stern^{1

2}, Joseph L D'Orazio^{3

4}, Brian D Work^{1

5}, Susan L Calcaterra⁶, Ashish P Thakrar^{7

8}

¹ Division of Hospital Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Center for Urban Bioethics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Cooper Center for Healing, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Toxicology and Addiction Medicine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
⁵ Prevention Point Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁶ Division of General Internal Medicine and Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁸ Perelman School of Medicine, Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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