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Individual and county-level factors associated with use of multiple prescribers and multiple pharmacies to obtain opioid prescriptions in California. [PDF]

, 2012
Use of multiple prescribers and pharmacies is a means by which some individuals misuse opioids. Community characteristics may be important determinants of the likelihood of this phenomenon independent of individual-level factors. This was a retrospective
Han, Huijun, Kass, Philip, Li, Chin-Shang, Wilsey, Barth   +3 more
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Differential Prescribing of Opioid Analgesics According to Physician Specialty for Medicaid Patients with Chronic Noncancer Pain Diagnoses

Pain Research and Management, 2014
BACKGROUND: Despite >20 years of studies investigating the characteristics of patients seeking or receiving opioid analgesics, research characterizing factors associated with physicians’ opioid prescribing practices has been inconclusive, and the role of
Chris Ringwalt, Hallam Gugelmann, Mariana Garrettson, Nabarun Dasgupta, Arlene E Chung, Scott K Proescholdbell, Asheley Cockrell Skinner   +6 more
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Comparison of analgesic effects and patient tolerability of nabilone and dihydrocodeine for chronic neuropathic pain: randomised, crossover, double blind study [PDF]

, 2008
<b>Objective</b>: To compare the analgesic efficacy and side effects of the synthetic cannabinoid nabilone with those of the weak opioid dihydrocodeine for chronic neuropathic pain.
Frank, B., Hughes, J., Kapur, D., Matthews, J.N.S., Serpell, M.G.   +4 more
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Modulation of Opioid Transport at the Blood-Brain Barrier by Altered ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) Transporter Expression and Activity

Pharmaceutics, 2018
Opioids are highly effective analgesics that have a serious potential for adverse drug reactions and for development of addiction and tolerance. Since the use of opioids has escalated in recent years, it is increasingly important to understand biological
Junzhi Yang, Bianca G. Reilly, Thomas P. Davis, Patrick T. Ronaldson   +3 more
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Large-scale Analysis of Opioid Poisoning Related Hospital Visits in New York State [PDF]

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018;2017:545-554, 2017
Opioid related deaths are increasing dramatically in recent years, and opioid epidemic is worsening in the United States. Combating opioid epidemic becomes a high priority for both the U.S. government and local governments such as New York State. Analyzing patient level opioid related hospital visits provides a data driven approach to discover both ...
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The impact of genetic variation on sensitivity to opioid analgesics in patients with postoperative pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Pain Physician, 2015
BACKGROUND Individual response to opioid analgesics varies among patients. OBJECTIVE This study sought to clarify the impact of distinct genetic variations on pain, opioid consumption, and opioid side effects in patients with postoperative pain ...
Zhen-Yu Ren, Xiao-qing Xu, Y. Bao, Jie He, Le Shi, J. Deng, Xuejiao Gao, Hui-lin Tang, Yu-Mei Wang, Lin Lu   +9 more
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Non-opioid analgesics: other [PDF]

, 2004
Mark S. Wallace, P. Staats, R. Presley, D. Ellis, S. Dissanayake   +4 more
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The effects of pioglitazone, a PPARγ receptor agonist, on the abuse liability of oxycodone among nondependent opioid users [PDF]

, 2016
Aims: Activation of PPARγ by pioglitazone (PIO) has shown some efficacy in attenuating addictive-like responses in laboratory animals. The ability of PIO to alter the effects of opioids in humans has not been characterized in a controlled laboratory ...
Alonzo, Banks, Begelow, Beitner-Johnson, Berger, Bhargava, Bland, Bush, Bussiere, Carr, Chang, Cone, Cooper, de Guglielmo, de Guglielmo, Dhalla, Eisenstein, Eisenstein, Eisenstein, Eng, Ferguson, Fraser, Gagnon, Garrido, Gelinas, Gillies, Hopkins, Hutchinson, Hutchinson, Hutchinson, Jeanne M. Manubay, Jermaine D. Jones, Johnston, Katz, Kielian, Kreutzberg, Ledeboer, Levine, Maria A. Sullivan, Marie-Claire, Martin, Mellon, Moreno, Nakajima, Narita, Pacifici, Pelvig, Roberto Ciccocioppo, Sandra D. Comer, Sarruf, Shanthi Mogali, Song, SPSS, Stoll, Stopponi, Stopponi, Strain, Sweitzer, Tawfik, Tontonoz, Verena E. Metz, Verkhratsky, Walker, Walker, Walsh, Walsh, Watkins, Watkins, Wightman, Woods, Wybran, Zacny, Zacny, Zacny, Zhang   +74 more
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Detection of Opioid Users from Reddit Posts via an Attention-based Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network [PDF]

The opioid epidemic, referring to the growing hospitalizations and deaths because of overdose of opioid usage and addiction, has become a severe health problem in the United States. Many strategies have been developed by the federal and local governments and health communities to combat this crisis.
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The changing landscape of opioid prescribing: long-acting and extended-release opioid class-wide Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2012
Jeffrey A GudinEnglewood Hospital and Medical Center, Englewood, NJ, USAAbstract: Prescriptions for opioid analgesics to manage moderate-to-severe chronic noncancer pain have increased markedly over the last decade, as have postmarketing reports of ...
Gudin JA
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