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Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States from 1979 through 2016
Science, 2018 Analyzing the drug abuse epidemic There is a developing drug epidemic in the United States. Jalal et al. analyzed nearly 600,000 unintentional drug overdoses over a 38-year period.
Hawre Jalal +5 more
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Spatial Analysis of County Level Drug Overdose Deaths and Associated Factors, Over Two Time Periods in the United States [PDF]
, 2019 Spatial Analysis of County Level Drug Overdose Deaths and Associated Factors, Over Two Time Periods in the United States By SUNANDA SARKAR April 18, 2019 INTRODUCTION: Recently, drug overdose is being considered as an important public health issue, the ...
Sarkar, Sunanda
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Recent advancements in wearable healthcare have brought accessible continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMs) for diabetes management. To address the limitations of CGMs, closed‐loop systems utilizing monitored glucose levels for insulin dosing are being developed.
Wei Huang +5 more
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Static Algorithm, Evolving Epidemic: Understanding the Potential of Human-AI Risk Assessment to Support Regional Overdose Prevention [PDF]
Drug overdose deaths, including those due to prescription opioids, represent a critical public health issue in the United States and worldwide. Artificial intelligence (AI) approaches have been developed and deployed to help prescribers assess a patient's risk for overdose-related death, but it is unknown whether public health experts can leverage ...
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Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.This study details the adaptations required to establish a long‐term anesthetic protocol in pigs. Three protocols were evaluated, with some causing malignant hyperthermia, hypoglycemia, or hemoynamic instability. The final protocol proved effective for developing a porcine AKI model requiring adequate arterial pressure maintenance.
Axel Guilpin +9 more
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman +4 more
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Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2023 Background: We examined non-fatal drug overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic among persons who inject drugs (PWID) in New York City (NYC). Methods: We recruited 275 PWID through respondent driven sampling and staff outreach from Oct. 2021-Sept. 2022 and
Don Des Jarlais +3 more
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A comparison of heroin epidemic models [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 The use of illicit drugs has been on the rise in United States. It is very detrimental on society, as fatal overdose is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, which is about the same as motor vehicle crashes. Of all illicit drugs, one drug that has an severe adverse effect on a community as a whole is heroin.
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Towards Better Opioid Antagonists Using Deep Reinforcement Learning [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Naloxone, an opioid antagonist, has been widely used to save lives from opioid overdose, a leading cause for death in the opioid epidemic. However, naloxone has short brain retention ability, which limits its therapeutic efficacy. Developing better opioid antagonists is critical in combating the opioid epidemic.Instead of exhaustively searching in a ...
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Supervised Injection Facilities: Legal and Policy Reforms [PDF]
, 2019 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that more than 70 000 deaths from drug overdoses occurred in 2017, including prescription and illicit opioids, representing a 6-fold increase since 1999.
Gostin, Lawrence O. +2 more
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