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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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Curriculum Guidelines for Social and Behavioral Sciences in Predoctoral Dental Education

Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social and behavioral sciences are an integral part of predoctoral dental education, given the important role of social and behavioral factors in oral health, dentist‐patient communication, the provision of person‐centered care, and patients’ experience of dental treatment and their treatment outcomes.
Cameron L. Randall, Casey D. Wright, Dolores Cannella, Jessica G. Hinz, Daniel W. McNeil, Drashty P. Mody, Gary Pape, Yun Saksena, Vaishali Singhal, Lance Brendan Young, Stuart M. Schrader   +10 more
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Publicly available machine learning models for identifying opioid misuse from the clinical notes of hospitalized patients

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, Dmitriy Dligach, Kristin Swope, Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, Niranjan S. Karnik, Cara Joyce, Majid Afshar   +6 more
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Youth and the Opioid Epidemic [PDF]

Pediatrics, 2019
The current epidemic of opioid addiction has arguably been the most recalcitrant in the nation’s history and the first to involve substantial numbers of adolescents. The country has embarked on a public health response, including increasing access to addiction treatment.
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Metabolic Dysfunction‐Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Obesity: Pathogenesis, Diagnostics, Risk Stratification, and Therapeutic Approach

The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) has emerged as the most prevalent chronic liver disease worldwide, closely linked to the global rising incidence of obesity and metabolic syndrome. This review synthesizes current evidence on the pathogenesis, gut–liver axis, and multidisciplinary management of MASLD within the ...
Beom Kyung Kim
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Addressing the growing opioid and heroin abuse epidemic: a call for medical school curricula

Medical Education Online, 2018
Substance abuse is a growing public health concern in the USA (US), especially now that the US faces a national drug overdose epidemic. Over the past decade, the number of drug overdose deaths has rapidly grown, largely driven by increases in ...
Madison C. Ratycz, Thomas J. Papadimos, Allison A. Vanderbilt   +2 more
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State laws and policies to reduce opioid-related harm: A qualitative assessment of PDMPs and naloxone programs in ten U.S. States

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2019
As the magnitude of the opioid epidemic grew in recent years, individual states across the United States of America enacted myriad policies to address its complications.
Christine C. Whitmore, Mary N. White, Melinda B. Buntin, Carrie E. Fry, Kevin Calamari, Stephen W. Patrick   +5 more
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Shift from inpatient to outpatient treatment in all age groups of anterior cruciate ligament surgery in Germany: An analysis of the public healthcare system

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Ruptures of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) are among the most common orthopaedic diagnoses with severe short‐ and long‐term consequences for patients. The aim of the study was to analyze trends of inpatient and outpatient treatment of ACL injuries in Germany.
Dominik Szymski, Werner Krutsch, Johannes Weber, Gero Knapp, Lorenz Huber, Nike Walter, Christian Heiss, Volker Alt, Markus Rupp   +8 more
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Neurostimulation as an Efficacious Nonpharmacologic Analgesic following Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair

Case Reports in Anesthesiology, 2022
This case highlights the importance of pursuing nonpharmacologic analgesic modalities in orthopedic surgery to combat the current opioid epidemic. Presented is a patient who underwent an arthroscopic rotator cuff repair and biceps tenodesis operation and
Ryan B. Juncker, Joel J. Gagnier, Faisal M. Mirza   +2 more
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The opioid epidemic among the Latino population in California

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2022
Background: The opioid epidemic in the United States has manifested differently across geographic regions and populations, with recent increases among racial/ethnic minorities and in the Western region of the U.S.
Avelardo Valdez, Alice Cepeda, Jessica Frankeberger, Kathryn M. Nowotny   +3 more
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