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In Opioid Withdrawal, With No Help In Sight

Health Affairs, 2017
A patient receives prescription opioids after an accident-and no support from his physicians as he weans himself off.
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Identifying the Neurodevelopmental Differences of Opioid Withdrawal

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, 2021
Stopping opioid medications can result in a debilitating withdrawal syndrome in chronic users. Opioid withdrawal can occur at all ages, but mechanistic understanding of this condition is predominantly derived from adult studies. Here, we examined whether there are age-dependent differences in the behavioural phenotype and cellular indices of opioid ...
Nynke J. van den Hoogen, Charlie H. T. Kwok, Tuan Trang   +2 more
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Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome

Pediatric Clinics of North America
The incidence of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) has increased significantly in the past 2 decades. While management approaches have traditionally focused on pharmacologic treatment, the eat, sleep, console approach optimizes nonpharmacologic methods such as low stimulation environments, parental presence, on-demand feedings, and swaddling ...
Frances Y, Cheng, Rebecca A, Beagan, Matthew R, Grossman   +2 more
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Buprenorphine for the management of opioid withdrawal

2002
Managed withdrawal is a necessary step prior to drug-free treatment. It may also represent the end point of maintenance treatment.To assess the effectiveness of interventions involving the use of buprenorphine to manage opioid withdrawal, for withdrawal signs and symptoms, completion of withdrawal and adverse effects.We searched the Cochrane Central ...
Gowing, L., Ali, R., White, J.
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The management of opioid withdrawal

Drug and Alcohol Review, 2000
AbstractTo date there has been little consensus on best practice in the management of opioid withdrawal. Regimes involving reducing doses of methadone or the administration of α2‐adrenergic agonists such as clonidine and lofexidine are most common, but the use of opioid antagonists to induce withdrawal, and the partialagonist, buprenorphine, are ...
Gowing, L., Ali, R., White, J.
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Treatment of Acute Opioid Withdrawal with Ibogaine

The American Journal on Addictions, 1999
Ibogaine is an alkaloid with putative effect in acute opioid withdrawal. Thirty‐three cases of treatments for the indication of opioid detoxification performed in non‐medical settings under open label conditions are summarized involving an average daily use of heroin of .64 ± .50 grams, primarily by the intravenous route.
K R, Alper, H S, Lotsof, G M, Frenken, D J, Luciano, J, Bastiaans   +4 more
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Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, Opioid Withdrawal, and Opioid Overdose

JAMA
Importance Opioid use disorder (OUD) involves compulsive opioid use that causes substantial distress or impairment at work, school, or home. OUD, which is the third most prevalent substance use disorder worldwide, affected an estimated 3.7% of US adults (9 367 000) in 2022 and caused 53 774 deaths in the US in ...
Miriam T H, Harris, Zoe M, Weinstein, Alexander Y, Walley   +2 more
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Opioid Overdose and Withdrawal

2015
The rate of exposure to analgesics including opioids and sedatives continues to rise each year. Rates of opioid abuse and deaths due to overdose are highest among non-Hispanic whites males, between 20 and 64 years old, from low socioeconomic and rural populations.
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Opiate/Opioid Withdrawal

2018
Opiates are naturally occurring substances (morphine, opium and codeine) while opioids are synthesized (heroin, oxycodone, hydromorphone, fentanyl, buprenorphine, methadone). They are prescribed worldwide to treat acute and chronic pain, diarrhea and cough.
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Opioid Tolerance or Opioid Withdrawal?

Anesthesiology, 2013
Sloan C, Youngblood, Mark J, Harbott
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