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Supporting Breastmilk Feeding for Infants in Foster Care: A Scoping Review

Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Worldwide, around 2.7 million children are not in the care of their parents, and access to breastmilk is often absent from foster care policies. We aimed to explore the evidence available on how foster families, health and social workers and mothers with infants in care can be supported in providing breastfeeding and expressed breastmilk (EBM),
Vicky Mitchell, Marianne White, Shona Shinwell, Camila Biazus‐Dalcin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting Opioid Use Disorder from Longitudinal Healthcare Data using Multi-stream Transformer [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is a public health crisis costing the US billions of dollars annually in healthcare, lost workplace productivity, and crime. Analyzing longitudinal healthcare data is critical in addressing many real-world problems in healthcare.
arxiv  

Patient perspectives on medications for alcohol use disorder: A systematic scoping review

Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 725-735, April 2025.
Fourteen studies were included in the systematic scoping review. Important themes related to patient‐perceived barriers to medications for Alcohol Use Disorder (MAUD) were identified, including lack of awareness and misunderstanding about the effectiveness and effects of MAUD, apprehensiveness or experience with side effects, and perceived MAUD stigma.
Devin C. Tomlinson, Autumn Rae Florimbio, Carol A. Lee, Mark A. Ilgen, Lewei A. Lin, Lara N. Coughlin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discovering heterogeneous subpopulations for fine-grained analysis of opioid use and opioid use disorders [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
The opioid epidemic in the United States claims over 40,000 lives per year, and it is estimated that well over two million Americans have an opioid use disorder. Over-prescription and misuse of prescription opioids play an important role in the epidemic.
arxiv  

Factors affecting waiting times to enter opioid use disorder treatment in the United States with a particular focus on potential biological sex disparity

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports, Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2025.
Abstract Aim Opioid use disorder (OUD) is the problematic use of licit or illicit opioids. Thus far, the literature on biological sex differences in accessing treatment is scarce. Hence, we hypothesize that biological sex has a moderating effect on OUD treatment accessibility.
Stanley Nkemjika, Kenneth Oforeh, Connie Olwit, Olaniyi Olayinka, Terence Tumenta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient centered medication treatment for opioid use disorder in rural Vermont: a qualitative study

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Background Opioid-related fatal overdoses are occurring at historically high levels and increasing each year. Accessible social and financial support are imperative to the initiation and success of treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). Medications for
Emily G. Hichborn, Owen B. Murray, Eilis I. Murphy, Tess E. Gallant, Sarah K. Moore, Bethany M. McLeman, John Saroyan, Anthony Folland, Megan Mitchell, Lisa A. Marsch   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Outcomes from the medication assisted treatment pilot program for adults with opioid use disorders in rural Colorado

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2022
Background As Colorado ranked among the top nationally in non-medical use of opioids, a pilot medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) program was developed to increase the number of NPs and PAs providing MOUD in order to bring this evidence- based ...
Claudia R. Amura, Tanya R. Sorrell, Mary Weber, Andrea Alvarez, Nancy Beste, Ursula Hollins, Paul F. Cook   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building Trust and Inclusivity: Navigating Layered Stigma and Risk Communication for LGBTQ+ Individuals During COVID‐19 Outbreaks

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 33, Issue 1, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Stigmatised groups, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer‐identifying (LGBTQ+) individuals, face increased vulnerability to infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, coronavirus disease (COVID‐19), and mpox (monkeypox). Layered and intersectional stigma limits healthcare access and public health participation, making trust and ...
JungKyu Rhys Lim, Hyoyeun Jun, Victoria Ledford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Are We Missing? A Principled Approach to Characterizing the Underrepresented Population [PDF]

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) serve as the cornerstone for understanding causal effects, yet extending inferences to target populations presents challenges due to effect heterogeneity and underrepresentation. Our paper addresses the critical issue of identifying and characterizing underrepresented subgroups in RCTs, proposing a novel framework ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Buprenorphine's Effect on the Human Immune System and Inflammation

Clinical and Translational Science, Volume 18, Issue 3, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Opioid use disorder is a persistent epidemic despite several FDA‐approved medications for its treatment. While the pathogenesis of opioid use disorder has been classically attributed to dopamine pathways in the brain, there is emerging evidence and interest surrounding the role of inflammation and inflammatory signaling in its development and ...
Samuel D. Shin, Rachel Branning, Michele McGinnis, Alexandra Shin, Ming‐Fen Ho, Victor M. Karpyak, Tyler Oesterle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source