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Background: Spinal anesthesia is a regional analgesia that blocks nerve cells in the subarachnoid space by local anesthetic drugs. Bupivacaine is the most common agent, however, the duration of analgesia is often short.
Firdaus Saputra +2 more
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Retrospective analysis reveals significant association of hypoglycemia with tramadol and methadone in contrast to other opioids. [PDF]
Tramadol is one of the most commonly used analgesics worldwide, classified as having a low abuse potential by U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, and often recommended in pain management guidelines.
Abagyan, Ruben +3 more
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Abstract Drug entry into prisons represents a serious issue for both incarcerated people and prison staff. Although substances enter prisons in many ways, staff drug smuggling represents a consistent problem facing correctional institutions globally. We draw on 131 interviews with correctional officers (COs) working in four Western Canadian prisons to ...
William J. Schultz +2 more
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Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
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Predicting Transdermal Fentanyl Delivery Using Mechanistic Simulations for Tailored Therapy
Thijs Defraeye +5 more
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ABSTRACT Background The US is experiencing an epidemic of opioid misuse and mortality. Effective treatments are available, including medications for opioid use disorders (MOUD), but they are greatly underused due to a variety of barriers. In response, some US hospitals have established programs to identify emergency department (ED) patients with opioid
Dominic Hodgkin +6 more
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The Opioid Crisis in Rural and Small Town America [PDF]
In this brief, authors Shannon Monnat and Khary Rigg examine rural versus urban differences in opioid mortality and identify challenges for dealing with the opioid crisis in rural areas.
Monnat, Shannon M, Rigg, Khary K
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ABSTRACT Study Objective To characterize opioid and nonopioid drug use in the week following emergency department (ED)‐initiated extended‐release buprenorphine (XR‐BUP) treatment using both self‐reported data and urine drug screens (UDS). Methods This study uses data collected during a nonrandomized clinical trial of patients with untreated opioid use ...
Ethan Cowan +10 more
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