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The Impact of Stigma on People with Opioid Use Disorder, Opioid Treatment, and Policy
Ali Cheetham,1,2 Louisa Picco,1 Anthony Barnett,1,2 Dan I Lubman,1,2 Suzanne Nielsen1,2 1Monash Addiction Research Centre, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University Peninsula Campus, Frankston, Victoria, 3199, Australia; 2Turning Point, Eastern ...
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Alcohol addiction: a molecular biology perspective. [PDF]
Alcohol misuse represents worldwide an important risk factor for death and disability. Excessive alcohol consumption is widely diffused in different ethnicities and alcohol use is part of the lifestyle of both young and old people.
Ferraguti, Giampiero +2 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Awareness and Attitude Towards Opioid and Stimulant Use and Lifetime Prevalence of the Drugs: A Study in 5 Large Cities of Iran [PDF]
Background Providing population-based data on awareness, attitude and practice of drug and stimulant use has policy implications. A national study was conducted among Iranian general population to explore life time prevalence, awareness and attitudes ...
Elham Mohebbi +9 more
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The effect of placebo and neurophysiological involvements [PDF]
Placebo and placebo effect are important issues related to the drug therapy for clinical and scientific meanings. The rates of placebo may get as many as 50% for analgesic drugs in headache. The high answer to placebo brings questions on pathophysiology
Galli, Federica +2 more
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Introduction Effective chronic pain management is a core competency of internal medicine. Opioid use in the United States, both therapeutic and nonmedical in origin, has dramatically increased, as has the number of deaths due to opioid overdose.
Theresa E. Vettese +2 more
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Acute Poisoning in Elderly; a Five-Year Study (2008-2013) in Hamadan, Iran [PDF]
Background: A good proportion of poisoned patients treated at poisoning wards are elderly. This study was designed to evaluate the epidemiologic pattern of acute poisoning in elderly in Hamadan, western Iran.
Saeed Afzali +3 more
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The dearth of prescribing guidelines for physicians is one key driver of the current opioid epidemic in the United States. In this work, we analyze medical and pharmaceutical claims data to draw insights on characteristics of patients who are more prone ...
Che Zhengping +14 more
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Spatial Concentration of Opioid Overdose Deaths in Indianapolis: An Application of the Law of Crime Concentration at Place to a Public Health Epidemic [PDF]
The law of crime concentration at place has become a criminological axiom and the foundation for one of the strongest evidence-based policing strategies to date.
Carter, Jeremy G. +2 more
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