The impact of stigma on people with opioid use disorder, opioid treatment, and policy. [PDF]
Illicit drug use disorders are the most stigmatised health conditions worldwide, and stigma acts as a meaningful barrier to treatment entry and treatment provision.
Lubman, Dan I +4 more
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Diagnosing and managing patients with chronic pain who develop prescription opioid use disorder: A scoping review of general practitioners’ experience [PDF]
Prescription opioid use disorder is an important sequela of long-term prescribed opioids for chronic ...
Harris-Roxas, B ; https://orcid.org/ +3 more
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Erythrocytic Reduced/Oxidized Glutathione and Serum Thiol/Disulfide Homeostasis in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder [PDF]
Background: This study aimed to evaluate oxidative damage by measuring erythrocytic reduced/oxidized glutathione as an intracellular thiol pool and serum thiol/disulfide homeostasis as an extracellular thiol pool in patients with opioid use disorder ...
Almila Şenat +9 more
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Opioid Use Disorder in Women and the Implications for Treatment
Objective The opioid epidemic continues to evolve and impact all groups of people. Moreover, there are concerning trends among women. The aim of this article is to provide a review of opioid use disorder in women and the implications for treatment ...
Celestina Barbosa‐Leiker +4 more
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The Rural Opioid Initiative Consortium description: providing evidence to Understand the Fourth Wave of the Opioid Crisis [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To characterize and address the opioid crisis disproportionately impacting rural U.S. regions. METHODS: The Rural Opioid Initiative (ROI) is a two-phase project to collect and harmonize quantitative and qualitative data and develop tailored ...
Stopka, Thomas J. +49 more
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Treatment of Opioid-Use Disorders [PDF]
Opioid-use disorders are common, but most physicians are not trained to recognize and treat them. This review outlines a general approach to identifying and treating these disorders.
Winetsky, Daniel +2 more
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The molecular neurobiology and neuropathology of opioid use disorder
The number of people diagnosed with opioid use disorder has skyrocketed as a consequence of the opioid epidemic and the increased prescribing of opioid drugs for chronic pain relief. Opioid use disorder is characterized by loss of control of drug taking,
Christopher A. Blackwood, Jean Lud Cadet
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Background: The opioid epidemic is a global tragedy even with current treatments, and a novel, safe, and effective treatment would be welcomed. We report here our findings from our second randomized controlled trial to evaluate unilateral transcranial ...
Fredric Schiffer +9 more
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Background Number of opiate users worldwide has doubled over the past decade, but not all of them are diagnosed with opioid use disorder. We aimed to identify the prevalence and risk factors for OUD after ten years of follow-up.
Saba Alvand +12 more
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A Systematic Review Examining Patient and Provider Attitudes Toward Use of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder [paper] [PDF]
Introduction: Despite drastically rising rates of opioid overdose related deaths, rigid opinions of both patients and providers against the use of medication for opioid use disorder persist in the face of well-established evidence indicating that ...
Trejo, Anyssa
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