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Community Head and Neck Cancer Knowledge, Engagement, Research, and Screening (CHECKERS): Protocol for a Community‐Engaged Approach to Head and Neck Cancer Prevention

Cancer Nexus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Unequal access to care is associated with disparities in prevention, early detection, and outcomes of head and neck cancer (HNC), especially in underserved populations. Community‐engaged research (CEnR) aims to build capacity for community members to address health inequity via bidirectional partnerships with healthcare ...
Nicholas A. Frisco, Vincent M. D'Anniballe, May Z. Gao, Melissa White, Leda Scearce, Dina K. Abouelella, Laura J. Fish, Patrick Warutere, Julius Muchangi, Pauline Mureithi, Trinitia Y. Cannon, Nosayaba Osazuwa‐Peters   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Prices and Policies on the Demand for Marijuana: Evidence from the National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse [PDF]

Recent studies have shown that efforts to curb alcohol use by increasing the price of alcohol and limiting youth's access have succeeded, but they may have had the unintended consequencce of increasing marijuana use.
Gary A. Zarkin, Matthew C. Farrelly, Brett W. Wendling, Jeremy W. Bray, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula   +4 more
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Initiation of Gabapentin with Opioids and Risk of Respiratory Cardiovascular and Opioid‐Related Adverse Events Following Surgery for Breast Cancer

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Pain is a key determinant of quality‐of‐life following breast cancer surgery, the most common cancer operation in the United States. Gabapentinoids are frequently prescribed for pain management, yet their respiratory, cardiovascular, and opioid‐related adverse effects remain unclear.
Jyun‐Heng Lai, Anton L V Avanceña, Juan P Cata, Jamie C. Barner, Sharon H. Giordano, Chanhyun Park, Hui Zhao, Kirk E. Evoy, John K. Lin, Jennifer C. Spencer, Mariana Chavez‐MacGregor, Kelly K. Hunt, Kerollos Nashat Wanis   +12 more
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Characteristics of patients with non-cancer pain and long-term prescription opioid use who have used medical versus recreational marijuana

Journal of Cannabis Research
Objective Marijuana use is increasingly common among patients with chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) and long-term opioid therapy (LTOT). We determined if lifetime recreational and medical marijuana use were associated with more frequent and higher dose ...
Whitney M. Davidson, Anika Mahavni, Timothy Chrusciel, Joanne Salas, Lisa R. Miller-Matero, Mark D. Sullivan, Celeste Zabel, Patrick J. Lustman, Brian K. Ahmedani, Jeffrey F. Scherrer   +9 more
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Exposing Gender Blindness in Business Scholarship on Modern Slavery

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of this review is to analyse the treatment of gender within business scholarship on modern slavery and to propose a framework that supports more gender‐sensitive corporate responses. Modern slavery risk is an escalating concern for business, with the United Nations calling for its eradication by 2030.
Kathyayini Kathy Rao, Roger Leonard Burritt, Katherine Leanne Christ   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Substitution of marijuana for opioids in a national survey of US adults.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Opioid prescriptions for chronic pain and subsequent opioid-related complications have risen dramatically in the US. Recent data suggest that medical marijuana laws have been associated with lower state-level opioid overdose mortality.
Julie H Ishida, Peggy O Wong, Beth E Cohen, Marzieh Vali, Stacey Steigerwald, Salomeh Keyhani   +5 more
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High on Life? Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicide [PDF]

Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent reduction in the ...
Anderson, D. Mark, Rees, Daniel I., Sabia, Joseph J.   +2 more
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Hours Since Last Drink Is Associated With Multiple Urine Ethyl Glucuronide Cutoffs Among Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder

Drug Testing and Analysis, EarlyView.
Higher uEtG results indicated more recent drinking, rather than higher levels of alcohol consumption, and the period of detection of uEtG was shorter than previously reported. Even at low cutoffs, uEtG was best conceptualized as a measure of alcohol consumption in the prior 24 h.
Julianne D. Jett, Mohammad Keshtkar, Emma Seidler, Katharine Palmer, Diana Tyutyunnyk, Rachael Beck, Sara C. Parent, Douglas L. Weeks, Naomi Chaytor, Sterling M. McPherson, Michael G. McDonell   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marijuana Decriminalization: What does it mean in the United States? [PDF]

It is well known in the drug policy field that eleven states reduced the criminal sanctions associated with possession of small amounts of marijuana. In this paper we review the eleven original decriminalization statutes, documenting key dimensions of ...
Jamie F. Chriqui, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Joanna King   +2 more
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Mental Health and Well‐Being Across the Eating Disorder Spectrum—From Milder Symptoms of Disordered Eating Behaviors to Diagnosed Eating Disorders

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examined differences in mental health and well‐being, risk behaviors, suicidality, and social functioning across a proposed eating disorder (ED) spectrum, ranging from no ED symptoms to clinically diagnosed EDs. Methods We examined 44,303 participants in the 18‐year follow‐up in the Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC‐18 ...
Anne V. Aurup, Andrea Joensen, Else Marie Olsen, Nadia M. Mikkelsen, Stine Danielsen, Pernille Stemann Larsen, Katrine Strandberg‐Larsen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source