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Preventing opioid overdose with peer-administered naloxone: findings from a rural state

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background In response to the opioid epidemic, naloxone distribution programs aim to prevent overdose death by making naloxone available and training people to use it.
Bridget L. Hanson, Rebecca R. Porter, Amanda L. Zöld, Heather Terhorst-Miller   +3 more
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Review of the Transitional Pain Service as a method of postoperative opioid weaning and a service aimed at minimizing the risk of chronic post-surgical pain

Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy, 2020
Opioid use and prescribing have become a subject of increasing focus and scrutiny. The ongoing “opioid epidemic” in North America has further increased interest in this area.
John Mikhaeil, Kennedy Ayoo, Hance Clarke, Marcin Wąsowicz, Alexander Huang   +4 more
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Transforming Prescription Opioid Practices in Primary Care With Change Theory

Health Services Insights, 2021
The opioid epidemic continues to be an ongoing public health crisis. Many primary health care providers aptly serve as the gatekeeper to opioid prescriptions.
Rob E. Carpenter, Dave Silberman, Jody K Takemoto   +2 more
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Oxycodone, an opioid like the others?

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
The over-prescription of opioid analgesics is a growing problem in the field of addiction, which has reached epidemic-like proportions in North America. Over the past decade, oxycodone has gained attention as the leading opioid responsible for the North ...
Nicolas Marie, Florence Noble
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Modeling the Prescription Opioid Epidemic [PDF]

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2019
27 pages, 13 figures. Bull Math Biol (2019)
Nicholas A. Battista, Leigh B. Pearcy, W. Christopher Strickland   +2 more
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The opioid epidemic and national guidelines for opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain: a perspective from different continents

PAIN Reports, 2017
. Introduction:. A marked rise in opioid prescriptions for patients with chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) with a parallel increase in opioid abuse/misuse, and resulting deaths was noted in the Unites states in the past decade (opioid epidemic). In response,
Winfried Häuser, Stephan Schug, Andrea D. Furlan   +2 more
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Opioid use disorder and treatment: challenges and opportunities

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Addiction health service researchers have focused efforts on opioid use disorder (OUD) and strategies to address the emerging public health threats associated with the epidemics of opioid use and opioid overdose.
Kim A. Hoffman, Javier Ponce Terashima, Dennis McCarty   +2 more
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Opioid Epidemics

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
In this paper, I propose an economic theory that addresses the epidemic character of opioid epidemics. I consider a community in which individuals are heterogenous with respect to the experience of chronic pain and susceptibility to addiction and live through two periods.
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Tackle the epidemic, not the opioids [PDF]

Nature, 2019
Unless attention turns to what leads to addiction and overdose, treatment will always be out of date, says Judith Feinberg. Unless attention turns to what leads to addiction and overdose, treatment will always be out of date, says Judith Feinberg.
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Cannabis combined with oxycodone for pain relief in fibromyalgia pain: a randomized clinical self-titration trial with focus on adverse events

Frontiers in Pain Research
ObjectivesWe determined whether adding cannabis to oxycodone for chronic non-cancer pain management could reduce treatment-related adverse effects (AEs) while maintaining effective analgesia.MethodsIn this open-label study, fibromyalgia patients aged ≥18 
Cornelis Jan van Dam, Cornelis Jan van Dam, Cornelis Kramers, Cornelis Kramers, Cornelis Kramers, Arnt Schellekens, Arnt Schellekens, Arnt Schellekens, Arnt Schellekens, Marcel Bouvy, Marcel Bouvy, Eveline van Dorp, Eveline van Dorp, Mikael A. Kowal, Erik Olofsen, Albert Dahan, Albert Dahan, Albert Dahan, Albert Dahan, Marieke Niesters, Marieke Niesters, Marieke Niesters, Monique van Velzen, Monique van Velzen   +23 more
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