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Illicit Opioid Intoxication: Diagnosis and Treatment
Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2011 Opioid intoxications and overdose are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Opioid overdose may occur in the setting of intravenous or intranasal heroin use, illicit use of diverted opioid medications, intentional or accidental misuse of
A. Fareed +5 more
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Association of Household Opioid Availability With Opioid Overdose
JAMA Network Open, 2023 ImportancePrevious studies that examined the role of household opioid prescriptions in opioid overdose risk were limited to commercial claims, did not include fatal overdoses, and had limited inclusion of household prescription characteristics. Broader research is needed to expand understanding of the risk of overdose.ObjectiveTo assess the role of ...
Hendricks, Michelle A. +7 more
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State marijuana laws and opioid overdose mortality
Injury Epidemiology, 2019 Background The opioid epidemic in the United States is a national public health crisis. In recent years, marijuana legalization has been increasingly adopted by state governments as a policy intervention to control the opioid epidemic under the premise ...
Stanford Chihuri, Guohua Li
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman +4 more
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BMJ Open, 2022 Objectives To describe the association between population size, population growth and opioid overdose deaths—overall and by type of opioid—in US commuting zones (CZs) in three periods between 2005 and 2017.Settings 741 CZs covering the entirety of the US
Ana V Diez Roux +5 more
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Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2020 Background: Opioid-overdose deaths and opioid prescriptions have increased substantially within the past decade, leading to examinations of urban-rural differences for these opioid-related outcomes, and whether annual trends differ by urban-rural status.
Jamey J. Lister +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Chronic pain increases risk for opioid overdose among individuals with opioid use disorder. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between recent overdose and whether or not chronic pain is active.
Sarah M. Hartz +8 more
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Opioid Overdose With Parkinsonian Features [PDF]
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2019 A 54-year-old man presented to the emergency department with confusion and Parkinsonian features after suspected heroin snorting. He had magnetic resonance imaging of the brain demonstrating isolated symmetric bilateral globus pallidus (GP) restricted diffusion and edema consistent with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
Cohen, Paul, Hack, Jason B.
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New England Journal of Medicine, 2019 Prevention of Opioid Overdose This review explains harm-reduction strategies for three groups of patients: those who have not received previous opioid therapy, those receiving long-term opioid ther...
Kavita M. Babu +2 more
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Opioid overdose, interventions, and challenges
BioImpacts, 2022 This short letter briefly reviews the significance of opioid overdose as well as the existing approaches to combat the epidemic. It also signifies the importance of naloxone, its commercially available dosage forms, and the unmet need for developing safe and effective naloxone dosage forms that can easily be administered in emergency settings.
Samaneh Alaei, Hossein Omidian
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