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“It's my frenemy”: A qualitative exploration of knowledge and perceptions of fentanyl use during the COVID-19 pandemic in people who use drugs at a syringe services program in Philadelphia, PA

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundExacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the proliferation of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs, overdose deaths have surged in the United States, making it important to understand how individuals who use drugs experience and perceive the risks of ...
Sarah Bauerle Bass, Sarah Bauerle Bass, Patrick J. A. Kelly, Sphoorti Pandit-Kerr, Jenine Pilla, Katherine Morris, Erin Larsen, Jennifer P. Wisdom, Phillip R. Torralva   +8 more
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Perspectives on rapid fentanyl test strips as a harm reduction practice among young adults who use drugs: a qualitative study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2019
BackgroundIn 2016, drug overdose deaths exceeded 64,000 in the United States, driven by a sixfold increase in deaths attributable to illicitly manufactured fentanyl.
Jacqueline E. Goldman, Katherine M. Waye, K. Periera, Maxwell S Krieger, Jesse L. Yedinak, B. Marshall   +5 more
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Efficacy of Intrathecal Fentanyl for Cesarean Delivery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials With Trial Sequential Analysis.

Anesthesia and Analgesia, 2020
BACKGROUND Fentanyl and morphine are the 2 most commonly added opioids to bupivacaine for spinal anesthesia during cesarean delivery. Numerous clinical trials have assessed efficacy and safety of different doses of fentanyl added to intrathecal ...
V. Uppal, S. Retter, M. Casey, S. Sancheti, K. Matheson, D. McKeen   +5 more
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Intraoperative infusion of lidocaine 2% reduces postoperative fentanyl requirements for pain control in renal transplantation surgery

Ain Shams Journal of Anesthesiology, 2020
Background Intravenous lidocaine has been shown to be an analgesic and anti-inflammatory medication with modulation of excessive inflammatory response.
Mostafa K. Abdellatif, Tamer H. Ibrahim
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Systemic Administration of Tempol Attenuates the Cardiorespiratory Depressant Effects of Fentanyl

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021
Fentanyl is a high-potency opioid receptor agonist that elicits profound analgesia and suppression of breathing in humans and animals. To date, there is limited evidence as to whether changes in oxidant stress are important factors in any of the actions ...
Santhosh Baby, Ryan Gruber, Joseph Discala, Veljko Puskovic, Nijo Jose, Feixiong Cheng, Michael Jenkins, Michael Jenkins, James Seckler, Stephen Lewis   +9 more
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Fentanyl vapor self-administration model in mice to study opioid addiction

Science Advances, 2020
Fentanyl vapor self-administration in mice provides a novel and noninvasive model to study opioid addiction. Intravenous drug self-administration is considered the “gold standard” model to investigate the neurobiology of drug addiction in rodents ...
Khaled Moussawi, Khaled Moussawi, M. M. Ortiz, Stephanie C. Gantz, Stephanie C. Gantz, B. Tunstall, R. Marchette, A. Bonci, G. Koob, L. Vendruscolo   +9 more
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“It wasn’t here, and now it is. It’s everywhere": fentanyl’s rising presence in Oregon’s drug supply

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Illicit fentanyl has contributed to a drastic increase in overdose drug deaths. While fentanyl has subsumed the drug supply in the Northeastern and Midwestern USA, it has more recently reached the Western USA.
Sarah S. Shin, Kate LaForge, Erin Stack, Justine Pope, Gillian Leichtling, Jessica E. Larsen, Judith M. Leahy, Andrew Seaman, Daniel Hoover, Laura Chisholm, Christopher Blazes, Robin Baker, Mikaela Byers, Katie Branson, P. Todd Korthuis   +14 more
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Comparative study of haemodynamic effects of intravenous ketamine-fentanyl and propofol-fentanyl for laryngeal mask airway insertions in children undergoing herniotomy under general anaesthesia in a nigerian tertiary hospital

Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2022
Background: Insertion of laryngeal mask airway (LMA) with propofol in children may cause hypotension, laryngospasm and apnoea. Ketamine and fentanyl have been combined separately with propofol to prevent depression of cardiovascular system during LMA ...
Ajibade Okeyemi, Aliyu Zakari Suleiman, Olubukola Olanrewaju Oyedepo, Benjami Olusomi Bolaji, Babajide Majeed Adegboye, Olufemi Adebayo Ige   +5 more
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Recent Changes in Drug Abuse Scenario: The Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) Phenomenon [PDF]

, 2019
copyright 2019 by the authors. Articles in this book are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are ...
Catalani, Valeria, Chilcott, Robert, Corazza, Ornella, Corkery, John, Guirguis, Amira, Marrinan, Shanna, Martinotti, Giovanni, Zloh, Mire   +7 more
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Fentanyl Law Enforcement Submissions and Increases in Synthetic Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths - 27 States, 2013-2014.

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2016
In March and October 2015, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and CDC, respectively, issued nationwide alerts identifying illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF) as a threat to public health and safety (1,2).
R. M. Gladden, Pedro D Martinez, P. Seth
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