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Adverse Effects of Opioid Dependency on Central and Peripheral Aspects of the Neuromuscular System

, 2019
Prevalence of chronic pain and health care costs have caused an escalation of opioid dependency. The current national crisis involving opioid dependency and drug overdose are growing problems that need to be addressed.
Yang, Cindy
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Managing Prolonged Pain After Surgery: Examining the Role of Opioids. [PDF]

, 2018
A notable minority of patients experience persistent postsurgical pain and some of these patients consequently have prolonged exposure to opioids. Risk factors for prolonged opioid use after surgery include preoperative opioid use, anxiety, substance ...
Pozek, John-Paul J., Schwenk, Eric S., Viscusi, Eugene R.   +2 more
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The Role of Direct-Injury Government-Entity Lawsuits in the Opioid Litigation [PDF]

, 2018
The opioid epidemic has ravaged the United States, killing over 100 Americans every day and costing the nation upward of $90 billion a year. All branches and levels of the government have pursued measures to combat the epidemic and reduce its societal ...
Aliferov, Edgar
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Opioid Atlas: Mapping Access to Pain Medication [PDF]

arXiv, 2016
Opiates are some of the most effective pain relief medications available for patients suffering from cancer and surgery-related pain. Despite the affordability and effectiveness of these medications, access to opiates is highly geographically variable. Pain researchers have attributed geographic variation to various factors including the fear of opioid
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Recent advances in the use of opioids for cancer pain

Journal of Pain Research, 2009
Joanne Droney, Julia RileyPalliative Medicine Department, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UKAbstract: Opioids are the mainstay of treatment for moderate to severe cancer pain. In recent years there have been many advances in the use of opioids for cancer
Joanne Droney, Julia Riley
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Ethanol reversal of tolerance to the respiratory depressant effects of morphine [PDF]

, 2015
Opioids are the most common drugs associated with unintentional drug overdose. Death results from respiratory depression. Prolonged use of opioids results in the development of tolerance but the degree of tolerance is thought to vary between different ...
A Fugelstad, A Fugelstad, Abi Lyndon, AJ Ruttenber, Anne Lingford-Hughes, AR Lingford-Hughes, B Levine, BM Mathers, CA Paronis, Chris Bailey, CK Kuo, CN Lessov, CP Bailey, CP Bailey, CP Bailey, E Kelly, E Valjent, Eamonn Kelly, EB Rex, EJ Waite, F Chen, FL Smith, FL Smith, Graeme Henderson, GS Ling, H Sakakibara, HW Matthes, HY Lin, I Rodriguez-Martin, J Llorente, J McPherson, J Reneau, JM White, Joanne Roberts, John MacLachlan, JT Williams, JW Lewis, KL McGilliard, L He, LC Hull, LC Saland, LJ Sim-Selley, LM Bohn, LQ Hong-Brown, M Aliczki, M Hickman, M Hickman, M Inoue, M Pierce, Matthew Hickman, N Quillinan, NG Shah, R Cornish, R Romberg, Rob Hill, S Darke, S Darke, S Kishioka, Sarah Withey, SJ Slater, SV Dighe, TC Green, Yvonne Kershaw   +62 more
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Discovering Opioid Use Patterns from Social Media for Relapse Prevention [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
The United States is currently experiencing an unprecedented opioid crisis, and opioid overdose has become a leading cause of injury and death. Effective opioid addiction recovery calls for not only medical treatments, but also behavioral interventions for impacted individuals.
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Geographic Variation in the Use of Gabapentinoids and Opioids for Pain in a Commercially Insured Adult Population in the United States

Journal of Pain Research, 2022
Danni Zhao,1 Jonggyu Baek,1 Anne L Hume,2,3 Emily A McPhillips,1 Kate L Lapane1 1Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA; 2Department of Family Medicine, Alpert Medical School, Brown ...
Zhao D, Baek J, Hume AL, McPhillips EA, Lapane KL   +4 more
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Substitution of marijuana for opioids in a national survey of US adults.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Opioid prescriptions for chronic pain and subsequent opioid-related complications have risen dramatically in the US. Recent data suggest that medical marijuana laws have been associated with lower state-level opioid overdose mortality.
Julie H Ishida, Peggy O Wong, Beth E Cohen, Marzieh Vali, Stacey Steigerwald, Salomeh Keyhani   +5 more
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A Prospective Randomized Study Analyzing Preoperative Opioid Counseling in Pain Management After Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery. [PDF]

, 2017
PURPOSE: Prescription opioid misuse has become increasingly prevalent in the United States. Preoperative opioid counseling has been proposed to decrease opioid consumption after surgery.
Alter, Todd H., Ilyas, Asif M
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