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Sex Differences in Opioid Analgesia and Addiction: Interactions among Opioid Receptors and Estrogen Receptors

open access: yesMolecular Pain, 2013
Opioids are widely used as the pain reliever and also notorious for being addictive drugs. Sex differences in the opioid analgesia and addiction have been reported and investigated in human subjects and animal models.
Cynthia Wei-Sheng Lee, Ing-Kang Ho
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Opioid-Free Anesthesia for an Emergency Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in a Patient Taking Buprenorphine-Naloxone for Opioid Addiction: A Case Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
With the growing public health problem of opioid misuse, addiction, and overdose, the number of patients presenting for surgery and anesthesia who may be opioid-dependent or undergoing medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder is increasing ...
Baribeault, MSN, CRNA, Thomas
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Buprenorphine Implant for Opioid Addiction [PDF]

open access: yesPain Management, 2012
SUMMARY The buprenorphine implant (Probuphine™, Titan Pharmaceuticals, CA, USA) is a recently developed long-acting formulation of buprenorphine, which is a partial opioid agonist that is widely used in the marketed, sublingual, daily-dose form for managing opioid addiction.
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Pain and Opioid Addiction: What is the Connection?

open access: yes, 2020
Addiction to opioid analgesics is an important and yet underinvestigated clinical issue, which has substantial implications in opioid therapy for chronic pain management.
Adam J Carinci, Jianren Mao
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Neuroplasticity in Opioid Addiction

open access: yes, 2014
Misuse and abuse of prescription opioid analgesics and use of recreational opioids such as heroin creates strong addiction patterns. The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) claims an increase of over 100% in emergency room visits from opioid analgesic ...
J. Jacob II Barnes (10082932)
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A Theory of Natural Addiction [PDF]

open access: yes
Economic theories of rational addiction aim to describe consumer behavior in the presence of habit-forming goods. We provide a biological foundation for this body of work by formally specifying conditions under which it is optimal to form a habit.
Tasnadi, Attila, Smith, Trenton G.
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Anesthesia for opioid addict: Challenges for perioperative physician

open access: yesJournal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2013
Opioid addiction is on a rise globally. Such a patient presents to an anesthesiologist as well as to the surgeon with an array of challenges. We present the case of an opioid addict (pentazocine) who presented for debridement and grafting of eschars and ...
Rohit Goyal   +3 more
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Association between opioid analgesic therapy and initiation of buprenorphine management: An analysis of prescription drug monitoring program data.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
BACKGROUND:In the US, medication assisted treatment, particularly with office-based buprenorphine, has been an important component of opioid dependence treatment among patients with iatrogenic addiction to opioid analgesics.
Apostolos A Alexandridis   +5 more
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Opioid treatment of opioid addiction

open access: yesAustralian Prescriber, 2013
Opioid-related problems, including addiction, are increasing in Australia and more medical practitioners are likely to have contact with such patients.
openaire   +1 more source

Navigating opioid use in chronic noncancer pain conditions: A case series on pseudoaddiction

open access: yesIndian Journal of Psychiatry
Opioid prescriptions for chronic non-cancer pain raise concerns of addiction risks. Understanding the nuanced intersection of chronic pain and opioid use is crucial in clinical settings.
Naveen Dhagudu   +3 more
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