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Neonatal abstinence syndrome: Pharmacologic strategies for the mother and infant. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Opioid use in pregnancy has increased dramatically over the past decade. Since prenatal opioid use is associated with numerous obstetrical and neonatal complications, this now has become a major public health problem.
Davis, Jonathan M.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Psychological Status of Opioid Treatment Service Staff in Tehran, the Epicenter of COVID-19 Outbreak in Iran: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

open access: yesJournal of Research Development in Nursing and Midwifery, 2021
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a severe acute respiratory syndrome that emerged in early December 2019. Global proliferation, abrupt increases in confirmed cases, and the risk of self-infection have caused significant stress and ...
Bijan Pirnia   +5 more
doaj  

Quality of life of treated opiate addicts in the methadone maintenance program and those treated with buprenorphine [PDF]

open access: yesVojnosanitetski Pregled, 2017
Background/Aim. Although the characteristics of the treatment are the most researched determinants of quality of life of opiate addicts, it is indisputable that there is a certain influence of the characteristics of addicts and addiction, too. The aim of
Marinković Mirjana   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Binding Pathway of Opiates to $μ$ Opioid Receptors Revealed by Unsupervised Machine Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Many important analgesics relieve pain by binding to the $\mu$-Opioid Receptor ($\mu$OR), which makes the $\mu$OR among the most clinically relevant proteins of the G Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) family. Despite previous studies on the activation pathways of the GPCRs, the mechanism of opiate binding and the selectivity of $\mu$OR are largely ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Targeted Learning on Variable Importance Measure for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Quantifying the heterogeneity of treatment effect is important for understanding how a commercial product or medical treatment affects different subgroups in a population. Beyond the overall impact reflected parameters like the average treatment effect, the analysis of treatment effect heterogeneity further reveals details on the importance of ...
arxiv  

Neurobehavioral consequences of chronic intrauterine opioid exposure in infants and preschool children: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
<b>Background</b><p></p> It is assumed within the accumulated literature that children born of pregnant opioid dependent mothers have impaired neurobehavioral function as a consequence of chronic intrauterine opioid use.<p>&
A Baldacchino   +86 more
core   +11 more sources

Dynamic modelling of hepatitis C virus transmission among people who inject drugs: a methodological review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Equipment sharing among people who inject drugs (PWID) is a key risk factor in infection by hepatitis C virus (HCV). Both the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing HCV transmission in this population (such as opioid ...
Cousien, Anthony   +5 more
core   +4 more sources

Selective review and commentary on emerging pharmacotherapies for opioid addiction. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Pharmacotherapies for opioid addiction under active development in the US include lofexidine (primarily for managing withdrawal symptoms) and Probuphine®, a distinctive mode of delivering buprenorphine for six months, thus relieving patients, clinicians,
Ling, Walter   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Intranasal Oxytocin for Stimulant Use Disorder Among Male Veterans Enrolled in an Opioid Treatment Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
The increasing prevalence of illicit stimulant use among those in opioid treatment programs poses a significant risk to public health, stimulant users have the lowest rate of retention and poorest outcomes among those in addiction treatment, and current ...
Christopher S. Stauffer   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sequential Deconfounding for Causal Inference with Unobserved Confounders [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Using observational data to estimate the effect of a treatment is a powerful tool for decision-making when randomized experiments are infeasible or costly. However, observational data often yields biased estimates of treatment effects, since treatment assignment can be confounded by unobserved variables.
arxiv  

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