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Opioid prescriptions for pain and epidemic of overdose death: can the dramatic reduction in anesthesia mortality serve as an example? [PDF]

, 2016
Igor Kissin Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Abstract: The annual number of US deaths from prescription-opioid overdose quadrupled between 1999
Kissin, Igor, Kissin I
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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Unless attention turns to what leads to addiction and overdose, treatment will always be out of date, says Judith Feinberg. Unless attention turns to what leads to addiction and overdose, treatment will always be out of date, says Judith Feinberg.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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Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: Human-Based Versus Algorithmic-Based Perceptions, Treatments, and Guidelines

, 2022
As a major public health crisis, the opioid epidemic caused over 556,000 deaths in the U.S. between 2000 and 2020. To control the epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed some general guidelines, encouraging physicians
Traub, Stephen J., Saghafian, Soroush, Boloori, Alireza   +2 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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Effect of oxycodone vs. morphine as first‐line opioid on new persistent opioid use after orthopaedic surgery: A prospective sequential cohort study

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Postoperative opioids, intended for short‐term analgesia, contribute to new persistent opioid use in 1%–7% of patients, adversely affecting outcomes. Oxycodone may carry higher risk than morphine, though long‐term data are limited.
Eward J. Melis, Johanna E. Vriezekolk, Frédérique H. C. Bollen, Dirk E. Schrander, Arnt F. A. Schellekens, Bart J. F. van den Bemt   +5 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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EXAMINING THE ORTHOPEDIC PROVIDER’S ROLE IN THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC

, 2020
The prescription opioid abuse epidemic in the United States has resulted in high mortality rates as well as public health and economic challenges. Specific challenges are related to prevention strategies such as patient-provider communication, patient ...
Hitchens, Krista Nicole.
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