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A Novel Use of the “3-Day Rule”: Post-discharge Methadone Dosing in the Emergency Department

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Introduction: Methadone is a medically necessary and lifesaving medication for many patients with opioid use disorder. To adequately address these patients’ needs, methadone should be offered in the hospital, but barriers exist that limit its ...
Jenna K. Nikolaides, Tran H. Tran, Elisabeth Ramsey, Sophia Salib, Henry Swoboda   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trends in Methadone Distribution for Pain Treatment, Methadone Diversion, and Overdose Deaths - United States, 2002-2014.

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2016
Use of the prescription opioid methadone for treatment of pain, as opposed to treatment of opioid use disorder (e.g., addiction), has been identified as a contributor to the U.S. opioid overdose epidemic.
Christopher M. Jones, G. Baldwin, Teresa Manocchio, Jessica O White, K. Mack   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Electrokinetic Manipulations Combined With Direct and Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Mass Spectrometry Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mass spectrometry (MS) is a powerful analytical technique that typically involves sample preparation and online analytical separation before MS detection. Traditional methods often face bottlenecks in sample preparation and analytical separation, despite the rapid detection capabilities of MS.
Nicholas E. Manicke, Lahiru Wedasingha, Magnus Rydberg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methadone Prescribing and Overdose and the Association with Medicaid Preferred Drug List Policies — United States, 2007–2014

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2017
Drug overdose is a leading cause of injury death in the United States; 47,055 fatal drug overdoses were reported in 2014, a 6.5% increase from the previous year (1), driven by opioid use disorder (2,3).
M. Faul, Michele K. Bohm, C. Alexander
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Methadone maintenance therapy versus no opioid replacement therapy for opioid dependence.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2003
BACKGROUND Methadone maintenance was the first widely used form of opioid replacement therapy developed to treat heroin dependence, and it remains the best-researched treatment for this problem.
R. Mattick, C. Breen, J. Kimber, M. Davoli, Rosie Breen   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effect of Methadone on Cardiac Repolarization in Japanese Cancer Patients: A Longitudinal Study

Cardiology and Therapy, 2019
Introduction Methadone is known to prolong the QT interval, which could induce lethal arrhythmias such as torsades de pointes. To determine the risk of ventricular arrhythmias in cancer patients using methadone, we measured QT dispersion (QTD) and Tpeak ...
Eriko Yamanaka, Satoru Chino, Toshifumi Takasusuki, Shinsuke Hamaguchi, Shigeki Yamaguchi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cardiovascular Complications Following Acute Methadone Poisoning in Patients with and Without a History of Long-term Methadone Use

Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice
Objective: Given the prevalence of methadone poisoning, this study was conducted to compare the cardiovascular complications following acute methadone poisoning in patients with and without a history of long-term methadone use.
Gholamali Dorooshi, Mahbod Shirmohammadi, Farzad Gheshlaghi, Arman Otroshi, Shafeajafar Zoofaghari, Nastaran Eizadi-Mood   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

An economic evaluation of the prison methadone program in New South Wales, CHERE Project Report No 22 [PDF]

Objectives - The aim of this study is to evaluate the costs and consequences of the provision of the prison methadone program in NSW, compared with no prison methadone.
Emma Warren, Rosalie Viney
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Toxicological Analysis of Some Drugs of Abuse in Biological Samples [PDF]

, 2015
Consumption of drugs of abuse is a scourge of modern world. Abuse, drug addiction and their consequences are one of the major current problems of European society because of the significant repercussions in individual, family, social and economic level ...
Baconi, Daniela Luiza, Bârcă, Maria, Bălălău, Cristian, Ciobanu, Anne Marie, Negrei, Carolina, Stan, Miriana   +5 more
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Commentary on Gibson et al. (2017): Gestational age and the severity of neonatal abstinence syndrome [PDF]

, 2017
No abstract ...
Allocco, Bier, Desai, Dryden, Gibson, Hodgson, Jones, Kocherlakota, Liu, Mactier, Maeda, McGlone, McGlone, Noormohammadi, Steinhorn, Yuan   +15 more
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