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Subtypes in Patients Taking Prescribed Opioid Analgesics and Their Characteristics: A Latent Class Analysis

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundOwing to their pharmacological properties the use of opioid analgesics carries a risk of abuse and dependence, which are associated with a wide range of personal, social, and medical problems.
Christian Rauschert, Nicki-Nils Seitz, Sally Olderbak, Sally Olderbak, Oliver Pogarell, Tobias Dreischulte, Ludwig Kraus, Ludwig Kraus, Ludwig Kraus   +8 more
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Central nervous system (CNS) medications and polypharmacy in later life: cross-sectional analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives Many central nervous system (CNS) medications are considered potentially inappropriate for prescribing in older people; however, these medications are common in polypharmacy (≥5 medicines) regimens.
Natasha Slater, Simon White, Martin Frisher   +2 more
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Opioid Analgesic Prescribing Practices of Dental Professionals in the United States [PDF]

, 2017
The prescription of opioid analgesics by dental professionals is widespread in the United States. Policy makers, government agencies, and professional organizations consider this phenomenon a growing public health concern.
Okunseri, Christopher, Okunseri, Elaye, Steinmetz, C. N., Szabo, Aniko, Zheng, C.   +4 more
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Changes in analgesic strategies for lobectomy from 2009 to 2018Central MessagePerspective

JTCVS Open, 2021
Objective: To evaluate trends in the use of epidural analgesia and nonopioid and opioid analgesics for patients undergoing lobectomy from 2009 to 2018.
Theresa Lo, MD, Robin Schiller, MD, DMD, Karthik Raghunathan, MBBS, MPH, Vijay Krishnamoorthy, MD, MPH, PhD, Oliver K. Jawitz, MD, MHS, Srinivas Pyati, MBBS, MD, FCARCSI, Thomas Van De Ven, MD, PhD, Raquel R. Bartz, MD, Annemarie Thompson, MD, Tetsu Ohnuma, MD, MPH, PhD   +9 more
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Addressing the Global Tragedy of Needless Pain: Rethinking the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [PDF]

, 2007
The lack of medical availability of effective pain medication is an enduring and expanding global health calamity. Despite important medical advances, pain remains severely under-treated worldwide, particularly in developing countries.
Allyn L. Taylor, Birnie, Chayes, Cole, De Lima, Farmer, Foley, Joranson, Raustiala, Scholten, Szasz, Taylor   +11 more
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Recent Chemical and Pharmacological Developments on 14-Oxygenated-N-methylmorphinan-6-ones

Molecules, 2021
Adequate pain management, particularly chronic pain, remains a major challenge associated with modern-day medicine. Current pharmacotherapy offers unsatisfactory long-term solutions due to serious side effects related to the chronic administration of ...
Mariana Spetea, Helmut Schmidhammer
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Trends and characteristics of accidental and intentional codeine overdose deaths in Australia [PDF]

, 2015
Examines trends in codeine-related mortality rates in Australia, and the clinical and toxicological characteristics of codeine-related deaths. Abstract Objectives: To examine trends in codeine-related mortality rates in Australia, and the clinical and ...
Amanda Roxburgh, Eva Saar, Jennifer Pilgrim, Louisa Degenhardt, Lucinda Burns, Suzanne Nielsen, Wayne D Hall   +6 more
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Pharmacogenetics of analgesic drugs [PDF]

, 2013
• Individual variability in pain perception and differences in the efficacy of analgesic drugs are complex phenomena and are partly genetically predetermined.
Branford, R, Cregg, R, Gubbay, A, Russo, G, Sato, H   +4 more
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The Effect of Postoperative Pain Treatment on the Incidence of Anastomotic Insufficiency after Rectal and Rectosigmoideal Surgery

Prague Medical Report, 2013
The aim of prospective study was to evaluate the pain relief in the postoperative period and consumption of opioid and non-opioid analgesics as a risk factor of the anastomotic insufficiency after rectal and rectosigmoideal resection for carcinoma ...
S. Adámek, Olga Matoušková, O. Polanecký, S. Světlík, J. Skořepa, M. Šnajdauf   +5 more
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Clinically important drug interactions with opioid and non-opioid analgesics [PDF]

Arhiv za farmaciju, 2018
Patients often seek advise from doctors and pharmacists about pain treatment. Opioid and non-opioid analgesics are the most commonly used drugs in the treatment of pain, but they have potential for pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic drug-drug ...
Vezmar-Kovačević Sandra, Vučićević Katarina, Vučenović-Topić Valentina, Rajkovača Zvezdana, Miljković Branislava   +4 more
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