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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 +4 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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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2020 Background Automated de-identification methods for removing protected health information (PHI) from the source notes of the electronic health record (EHR) rely on building systems to recognize mentions of PHI in text, but they remain inadequate at ...
Brihat Sharma +6 more
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Opioid Analgesic Prescribing Practices of Dental Professionals in the United States [PDF]
, 2017 The prescription of opioid analgesics by dental professionals is widespread in the United States. Policy makers, government agencies, and professional organizations consider this phenomenon a growing public health concern.
Okunseri, Christopher +4 more
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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 +3 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 +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Immuno-epidemiological co-affection model of HIV infection and opioid addiction
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2022 In this paper, we present a multi-scale co-affection model of HIV infection and opioid addiction. The population scale epidemiological model is linked to the within-host model which describes the HIV and opioid dynamics in a co-affected individual.
Churni Gupta +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 +2 more
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Forecasting the opioid epidemic [PDF]
Science, 2016 Since 2000, almost half a million Americans have died from drug overdoses. This modern plague—largely driven by opioid addiction—degrades health, saps productivity, spawns crime, and devastates families, all at enormous societal cost. How did we get here, and what do we do now?
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