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The Opioid Epidemic and Nursing: How Can We Help?

, 2021
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is a problematic pattern of opioid use that causes significant impairment within a user\u27s daily life. The opioid epidemic has led to excessive financial burdens on federal state and local governments; private health insurance;
Randazzo, Julia
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Perceptions of Buprenorphine With Naloxone Treatment and the Fear of Precipitated Withdrawal: A Qualitative Exploration With HIV Prevention Trials Network 094 INTEGRA Participants and Staff

Drug and Alcohol Review, Volume 45, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Uptake of evidence‐based medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), including buprenorphine–naloxone, remains low despite the expanding US opioid crisis. This study examined participants' and staff perceptions of adopting and delivering buprenorphine–naloxone on a mobile unit providing integrated MOUD and HIV services for people ...
Rose A. Schmidt, Amaya Perez‐Brumer, Peter Davidson, Steve Shoptaw, Nabila El‐Bassel, Philip Andrew, Jayla Harris, Omar Nieto, Sydney Bornstein, Rashaunna Redd, Jessica Yeager, David Goodman‐Meza, Albert L. Hasson, Marc Seigel, Cecile Denis, Renee El‐Krab, Laramie R. Smith, on behalf of the HPTN 094 Team   +17 more
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Sex differences in neonatal outcomes following prenatal opioid exposure

Frontiers in Pediatrics
The impact of the opioid epidemic on pregnant people and children is a growing public health crisis. Understanding how opioids affect the developing brain during pregnancy and postnatally remains a critical area of investigation.
Nethra K. Madurai, Lauren L. Jantzie, Lauren L. Jantzie, Lauren L. Jantzie, Lauren L. Jantzie, Elizabeth Yen, Elizabeth Yen, Elizabeth Yen   +7 more
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The Public and the Opioid-Abuse Epidemic

New England Journal of Medicine, 2018
The Public and the Opioid-Abuse Epidemic A majority of the U.S. public considers addiction to prescription pain medication a major problem but does not deem it a national emergency. And only about half of the public believes there’s a treatment for prescription-painkiller addiction that’s effective in the long term.
Robert J, Blendon, John M, Benson
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Drug Use and Social Connectivity Related to Hepatitis C Infection Among Rural People Who Use Drugs

Journal of Viral Hepatitis, Volume 33, Issue 7, July 2026.
ABSTRACT People who use drugs (PWUD) have a disproportionately elevated risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV). Appropriate screening and treatment may be limited, especially in rural environments experiencing healthcare shortages. In order to develop targeted intervention strategies for rural PWUD, we investigated individual and network‐level correlates of ...
Alex Rains, Ellen Almirol, William Nicholson, Scott Fletcher, Wiley D. Jenkins, John A. Schneider, Mai T. Pho   +6 more
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Conventional Ankle Sprain Treatment is Associated with Alarmingly High Rates of Persistent Opioid Use

Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2019
Category: Ankle Introduction/Purpose: The opioid epidemic has been defined by over-prescribing by practitioners and increasing misuse, abuse, and diversion of opioids by patients.
Fred T. Finney MD, Timothy D. Gossett MD, Hsou Mei Hu PhD, Jennifer Waljee MD, Chad Brummett MD, David M Walton MD, Paul G Talusan MD, James R. Holmes MD   +7 more
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The North American opioid epidemic: current challenges and a call for treatment as prevention

Harm Reduction Journal, 2017
There is a need for creative, public health-oriented solutions to the increasingly intractable problems associated with the North American opioid epidemic.
Devesh Vashishtha, Maria Luisa Mittal, Daniel Werb   +2 more
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Responding to the Opioid Epidemic

, 2018
Matthew Herder considers possible regulatory responses to the opioid epidemic that aim to recover health care costs, compensate survivors, or prosecute pharmaceutical ...
Herder, Matthew
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Michigan Opioid Legislation – Act No. 251: The Effort to End the Opioid Epidemic

, 2020
There is without a doubt an opioid consumption and subsequent opioid overdose epidemic currently in the United States. With the formation of any epidemic, governmental policies are created and enacted to combat and end the epidemic.
Keller, Nicolette G.
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A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 77, Issue 3-4, Page 427-436, June 2026.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger, Anna Kihlström, Brinda Sivaramakrishnan, Allison Kelliher, Frankie Kropp, Carmen Rosa, T. John Winhusen, Donald Warne, the CTN0129 participating Tribal communities   +8 more
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