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Prevalence of Opioid Dependence and Opioid Agonist Treatment in the Berlin Custodial Setting: A Cross-Sectional Study

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
Background Among people living in detention, substance use is highly prevalent, including opioid dependence. Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) has been established as an evidence-based, first-line treatment for opioid dependence.
Kira von Bernuth, P. Seidel, J. Krebs, M. Lehmann, B. Neumann, N. Konrad, A. Opitz-Welke   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Error Traps in Pediatric Neuromuscular Block

Pediatric Anesthesia, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Neuromuscular blocking agents are essential for safe pediatric anesthesia but remain a frequent source of preventable morbidity when misused, inadequately monitored, or incompletely reversed. Children, particularly neonates and infants, are especially vulnerable to residual neuromuscular block due to developmental pharmacological ...
Gabriel Soares de Sousa, Debra Faulk, Vinicius Caldeira Quintao, Niekoo Abbasian, Hans D. de Boer, Ricardo Vieira Carlos   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Narrative Pharmacological Review of Buprenorphine: A Unique Opioid for the Treatment of Chronic Pain

Pain and Therapy, 2020
Buprenorphine is a Schedule III opioid analgesic with unique pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic properties that may be preferable to those of Schedule II full μ-opioid receptor agonists.
Jeffrey Gudin, Jeffrey Fudin
doaj   +1 more source

Innovative Drug Delivery and Formulation Designs To Deter Drug Abuse/Misuse Related To Suicide [PDF]

, 2012
Patients with a history of abuse/misuse of pain and psychotic medications are at high risk for suicide. Novel drug delivery and formulation approaches have been explored to reduce the potential of drug abuse/misuse and to improve patient compliance. This
Zhao, Fang
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Post-mortem toxicological analyses of blood samples from 107 patients receiving opioid agonist treatment: substances detected and pooled opioid and benzodiazepine concentrations.

Addiction, 2020
AIMS To present the substances and their concentrations detected post-mortem in patients receiving opioid agonist treatment (OAT) stratified by cause of death, estimate the pooled opioid and benzodiazepine concentrations using established conversion ...
Anne Berit Bech, T. Clausen, H. Waal, V. Vindenes, H. Edvardsen, J. Frost, Ivar Skeie   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effect of butorphanol in combination with xylazine during castration of calves: A randomised trial under field conditions

Veterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background In horses, cats and dogs, the opioid butorphanol has been proven effective in management of visceral pain and for peri‐ and postoperative pain relief. The aim of this study was to evaluate physiological responses and indicators of noxious stimuli when adding butorphanol to xylazine for sedation of bull calves during surgical ...
Axel Sannö, Lovisa Snygg, Maja Wiklund, Görel Nyman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated exercise program in opioid agonist therapy clinics and effect on psychological distress: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (BAReAktiv)

Trials
Background Substance use disorder is associated with unhealthy lifestyle choices, resulting in adverse social and health consequences. People with opioid use disorder receiving opioid agonist therapy, in particular, have high morbidity and reduced ...
Einar Furulund, Tesfaye Madebo, Karl Trygve Druckrey-Fiskaaen, Jørn Henrik Vold, Mette Hegland Nordbotn, Eivin Dahl, Sindre M. Dyrstad, Torgeir Gilje Lid, Lars T. Fadnes, for the ATLAS4LAR study group   +9 more
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Buprenorphine: a new alternative in the treatment of opioid addiction

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2021
Opioid addiction is a complex disease with severe biological, psychological, and social impacts in the life of the individual, his family and the society. Besides heroin, misuse and abuse of prescription opioid pain medications are rising.
Tahir Tellioglu
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Prenatal Prescription Opioid Analgesic Exposure and Academic Performance in Third Grade Children: A Population‐Based Cohort Study

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the association between prenatal exposure to opioids analgesics and academic performance in third grade children. Design Population‐based cohort study using linked data from New South Wales birth records, medicine dispensing data, and national standardised test results.
Bianca Varney, Helga Zoega, Malcolm B. Gillies, Claudia Bruno, Alys Havard, Antonia Shand, Natasha Nassar, Jonathan Brett   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Delta-opioid receptor endocytosis in spinal cord after dermenkephalin activation

BMC Neuroscience, 2000
Background The delta(δ)-opioid receptors belong to the G protein-coupled receptors and in vitro studies have shown that δ-opioid receptors undergo an internalization process in response to agonist stimulation.
Gastard Myriam
doaj   +1 more source