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Best Practice and Research in Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
An opioid epidemic has been happening across the world since the 1990s and continues impact individuals, families, communities and societies around the globe. The epidemic has evolved from heroin misuse to the use of synthetic opioids that are easily manufactured and are readily available.
Jocelynn Cook
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An opioid epidemic has been happening across the world since the 1990s and continues impact individuals, families, communities and societies around the globe. The epidemic has evolved from heroin misuse to the use of synthetic opioids that are easily manufactured and are readily available.
Jocelynn Cook
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The Opioid Epidemic in the United States
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2016There is an epidemic of opioid abuse. This article discusses the history of opioid use. Abusers of opioids are at great risk of harm. There have been increasing legislative efforts to curb this abuse and we present a review of the current state of these laws.
Hong Kim
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Clinics in Plastic Surgery, 2020
Increases in opioid prescribing over the last several decades is correlated with an alarming increase in opioid-related morbidity and mortality owing to both prescription opioid misuse and abuse as well as heroin abuse. Prescribing after surgery is commonly in excess, and leftover pills are an important driver of opioid use disorders owing to diversion
Lily A, Upp, Jennifer F, Waljee
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Increases in opioid prescribing over the last several decades is correlated with an alarming increase in opioid-related morbidity and mortality owing to both prescription opioid misuse and abuse as well as heroin abuse. Prescribing after surgery is commonly in excess, and leftover pills are an important driver of opioid use disorders owing to diversion
Lily A, Upp, Jennifer F, Waljee
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Critical Care Clinics, 2020
In recent years the prescription opioid overdose epidemic has decreased, but has been more than offset by increases in overdose caused by fentanyl and fentanyl analogues. Opioid overdose patients should receive naloxone if they have significant respiratory depression and/or loss of protective airway reflexes.
Eric J, Lavonas, Cameron, Dezfulian
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In recent years the prescription opioid overdose epidemic has decreased, but has been more than offset by increases in overdose caused by fentanyl and fentanyl analogues. Opioid overdose patients should receive naloxone if they have significant respiratory depression and/or loss of protective airway reflexes.
Eric J, Lavonas, Cameron, Dezfulian
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2023
Opioid misuse is now a worldwide epidemic and major public health issue with widespread implications. This fascinating book provides a collection of compelling arguments on how the course of the opioid epidemic can be changed. It offers an overview of the historical origins of opioid addiction, a summary of the current state of the worldwide epidemic ...
Jahangir Moini +3 more
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Opioid misuse is now a worldwide epidemic and major public health issue with widespread implications. This fascinating book provides a collection of compelling arguments on how the course of the opioid epidemic can be changed. It offers an overview of the historical origins of opioid addiction, a summary of the current state of the worldwide epidemic ...
Jahangir Moini +3 more
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Addressing the Opioid Epidemic
JAMA, 2015Afteralcohol intoxication,opioidsare themostcommoncause ofpoisoninginpatientspresentingtoNorthAmericanemergency departments.1Mostopioidsmisusedbypatientsoriginate from prescriptionmedication.Most patientswhooverdoseonprescription opioids are taking their medications differently thanprescribedorareusingopioidsprescribedtosomeoneelse.
Lewis S, Nelson +2 more
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Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2015
The past few decades have seen an alarming rise in opioid use in the United States, and the negative consequences from diversion of opioids for nontherapeutic use are dramatically increasing. A significant number of orthopaedic patients are at risk for repercussions from both therapeutic and nontherapeutic opioid use. Orthopaedic surgeons are the third
Paul Levin, Hassan R. Mir
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The past few decades have seen an alarming rise in opioid use in the United States, and the negative consequences from diversion of opioids for nontherapeutic use are dramatically increasing. A significant number of orthopaedic patients are at risk for repercussions from both therapeutic and nontherapeutic opioid use. Orthopaedic surgeons are the third
Paul Levin, Hassan R. Mir
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Pregnancy and the Opioid Epidemic
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 2018Opioid use disorder (OUD) in pregnancy is increasing, which often results in poor maternal and neonatal outcomes including neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) as a result of lack of prenatal care and inadequate substance use disorder management.
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2019
An incisive, essential guide to understanding one of today’s most urgent -- and complex -- problems. The opioid epidemic is responsible for longest sustained decline in U.S. life expectancy since the time of World War I and the Great Influenza. In 2017, nearly 50,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose - with an estimated 2 million more living with ...
Yngvild Olsen, Joshua M. Sharfstein
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An incisive, essential guide to understanding one of today’s most urgent -- and complex -- problems. The opioid epidemic is responsible for longest sustained decline in U.S. life expectancy since the time of World War I and the Great Influenza. In 2017, nearly 50,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose - with an estimated 2 million more living with ...
Yngvild Olsen, Joshua M. Sharfstein
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Acupuncture and the Opioid Epidemic in America
Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2018The opioid epidemic has become a signifificant public health crisis in the United States of America. This crisis has elicited a response at high levels of governmental and health care organizations including the American College of Physicians, the Food and Drug Administration, the Joint Commission, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and ...
Chang-Zhen, Gong, Wei, Liu
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