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The Rural Opioid Initiative Consortium description: providing evidence to Understand the Fourth Wave of the Opioid Crisis

, 2022
OBJECTIVE: To characterize and address the opioid crisis disproportionately impacting rural U.S. regions. METHODS: The Rural Opioid Initiative (ROI) is a two-phase project to collect and harmonize quantitative and qualitative data and develop tailored ...
Stopka, Thomas J., Friedmann, Peter D., Feinberg, Judith, Westergaard, Ryan P., Tsui, Judith I., Cooper, Hannah L. F., Fredericksen, Rob, Rudolph|, Abby E. Rudolph, Joseph A. C. Delaney, Pho, Mai T., Thomas J. Stopka, Allen, Todd M., P. Todd Korthuis, Todd M. Allen, Hannah L. F. Cooper, Vivian F. Go, Seal, David W., Young, April M., Smith, Gordon S., Wiley D. Jenkins, Gordon S. Smith, Korthuis, P. T., null null, David W. Seal, Crane, Heidi M., Jenkins, Richard A., Miller, William C., Ryan P. Westergaard, Delaney, Joseph A. C., Jenkins, Wiley D., William A. Zule, Judith I. Tsui, Mai T. Pho, Rob Fredericksen, Judith Feinberg, Heidi M. Crane, Rudolph, Abby E., Nance, Robin M., Richard A. Jenkins, Robin M. Nance, Whitney, Bridget M., William C. Miller, Go, Vivian F., Bridget M. Whitney, April M. Young, Peter D. Friedmann, Rudolph, Abby, Korthuis, P. Todd, Zule, William A.   +49 more
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Evidence of Modeling Impact in Development of Policies for Controlling the Opioid Epidemic and Improving Public Health: A Scoping Review

Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2019
Background: Opioid addiction and overdose rates are reaching unprecedented levels in the U.S., with around 47,736 overdose deaths in 2017. Many stakeholders affect the opioid epidemic, including government entities, healthcare providers and policymakers,
Nasser Sharareh, Shabnam S Sabounchi, Mary McFarland, Rachel Hess   +3 more
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Opioid epidemic and liver disease

JHEP Reports, 2019
Summary: Opioid use in the United States and in many parts of the world has reached epidemic proportions. This has led to excess mortality as well as significant changes in the epidemiology of liver disease.
Elizabeth C. Verna, Aaron Schluger, Robert S. Brown, Jr.   +2 more
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Are US Plastic Surgery Residents Equipped to Face the Opioid Epidemic? A National Survey

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2021
Summary:. The United States opioid epidemic is among this century’s most profound threats to public health and demands that all physicians consider their role in reversing its trajectory.
Banafsheh Sharif-Askary, MD, Salma A. Abdou, MD, Tanvee Singh, MPH, David H. Song, MD, MBA   +3 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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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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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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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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