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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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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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Promoting Awareness of the Opioid Epidemic in Rural Vermont [PDF]

, 2017
Vermont is in the middle of an opioid epidemic. Heroin use fatalities are on the rise and the number of people in treatment for opioid use disorder in Rutland County has tripled in recent years.
Olson, Kathleen
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A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger, Anna Kihlström, Brinda Sivaramakrishnan, Allison Kelliher, Frankie Kropp, Carmen Rosa, T. John Winhusen, Donald Warne, the CTN0129 participating Tribal communities   +8 more
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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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Pain Therapy Guided by Purpose and Perspective in Light of the Opioid Epidemic

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018
Prescription opioid misuse is an ongoing and escalating epidemic. Although these pharmacological agents are highly effective analgesics prescribed for different types of pain, opioids also induce euphoria, leading to increasing diversion and misuse ...
Amie L. Severino, Amie L. Severino, Amie L. Severino, Amie L. Severino, Arash Shadfar, Joshua K. Hakimian, Joshua K. Hakimian, Oliver Crane, Oliver Crane, Ganeev Singh, Ganeev Singh, Keith Heinzerling, Wendy M. Walwyn, Wendy M. Walwyn   +13 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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Are we ready to manage an opioid epidemic in the intensive care unit?

Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy, 2022
The current opioid epidemic has had a massive impact on the critical care sector. This is due to an increase in the number of acute opioid overdose-related admissions and the number of opioid-dependent and opioid-tolerant patients admitted to intensive ...
Akshaya Das, Ankur Sharma, Nikhil Kothari, Shilpa Goyal   +3 more
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A Background of the Opioid Epidemic and Its Relationship to the Medicaid Expansion [PDF]

, 2019
Despite the recent increase in public awareness of the opioid epidemic, the background of this epidemic is still disappointingly unknown to the public.
Jang, Er Yearn
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Local Responses to Limits on U.S. Public Health Authority During the COVID‐19 Emergency

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public health has become politicized in the U.S. Though research shows that limiting public health authority during emergency response puts community wellbeing and health outcomes at risk, during the COVID‐19 emergency (2020–2021), some U.S. state policymakers limited the disease‐preventing actions local public health agencies could take. This
Genevive R. Meredith, Xue Zhang, Zachary M. Batterman, Hannah M. Morris, Zhiwei Chen, Mah Liqa, Mildred E. Warner   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source