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Primary Care Practitioners' Approaches to Deprescribing Opioids for Older Adults With Chronic Pain: A Qualitative Analysis

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Volume 74, Issue 6, Page 1638-1646, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Risks related to long‐term opioid therapy for chronic pain are high and may increase over time with aging. Deprescribing may be a beneficial intervention for older adults prescribed chronic opioids. Methods Semi‐structured interviews with hypothetical clinical cases of older adults prescribed opioids for chronic pain: (1) low‐risk ...
Brianna X. Wang, Julia H. Lindenberg, Shoshana J. Herzig, Mara A. Schonberg, Timothy S. Anderson   +4 more
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Keyword: addicted, non-addicted, personality characteristics, problem solving styles Prevalence of Narcotic Drugs Use among Physical Education and Non-Physical Education Female Students

, 2011
Introduction: the purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of narcotic drugs use among female students field of physical education and non-physical education of Guilan University.
Hamid Arazi, Bahman Asgari
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Evaluation of Pain and Opioid Use in Ptosis and Blepharoplasty Surgery. [PDF]

J Ophthalmol
Bair C, Patel BCK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Dealing with synthetics: time to reframe the narrative.

, 2017
Key Points: • Despite adjustments over its lifetime, the contemporary international drug control regime has had an historical emphasis in on ‘narcotic’ drugs, such as opium, heroin and cocaine, rather than on a range of synthetic substances ...
Buxton, Julia, Bewley-Taylor, Dave, Hallam, Christopher   +2 more
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Orchestration of PKC‐Mediated Inhibition and Calcium Release‐Mediated Activation of BK Currents in Rat Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells by Melatonin Confers a BK‐Channel‐Dependent Restraint on Melatonin‐Induced Vasocontraction

The FASEB Journal, Volume 40, Issue 10, 31 May 2026.
Melatonin‐evoked BK current stimulation limits melatonin‐induced vasocontraction. Counter‐regulatory role for BK current depends on PLC‐dependent signaling cross‐talk. Stimulation of BK current involves melatonin‐induced IP3‐mediated calcium release leading to activation of BK channels. Stimulation of BK current involves melatonin‐induced activation of
Anastasia Pyanova, Vjatscheslav U. Kalentchuk, Vladimir N. Serebryakov, Rudolf Schubert   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of narcotic addiction on thyroid function

, 2013
Although it is thought that drug abuse causes changes to thyroid function, the exact mechanism is still not well defined. Therefore, after a preliminary study, the aim of this supplementary study was to investigate the effect of narcotic addiction on ...
toomaj Sabooteh, mehrzad Jafarzadeh, farhad Shahsavar, behnam Asadifar, mina Darand   +4 more
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Suzetrigine: What Should Plastic Surgeons Know? [PDF]

Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
Wiegmann AL, Markewych AN, Cook JQ, Jejurikar S, Rohrich RJ.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On Assessment of the Supreme Court Decisions in Tackling Substance Misuse in Indonesia

This study aims to analyse the Indonesian Supreme Court (Mahkamah Agung) decisions to the defendants of substance misuse. The data were based on the Supreme Court decisions for substance misuse cases from 2001-2009, uploaded in putusan.mahkamahagung.or ...
Pradiptyo, Rimawan, Saputra, Sony
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Drugs, police inefficiencies and gangsterism in violently impoverished communities like Overcome

, 2013
This research establishes an understanding of the relationship between gangsterism, the drug commodity and inefficiencies in the state’s policing institution, as well as the consequences of this relationship, in the context of Overcome squatter area in
Taheri-Keramati, Yashar
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The Essence of Bad Decisions: United States Drug Control Policy in Latin America

, 2011
\ud THE ESSENCE OF BAD DECISIONS: UNITED STATES\ud DRUG CONTROL POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA\ud by\ud Michael R. Henneberry\ud Master of Arts in Political Science\ud California State University\ud Spring 2011\ud In this study, I seek to evaluate United States-
Henneberry, Michael
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