Barriers to the development of palliative care in Western Europe [PDF]
, 2010 The Eurobarometer Survey of the <i>EAPC Task Force on the Development of Palliative Care in Europe</i> is part of a programme of work to produce comprehensive information on the provision of palliative care across Europe.
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Fashioning Appropriate Regulation of Opioids for Palliative Care [PDF]
, 2018 Palliative care specialists, who care for patients with serious, life-limiting illnesses such as cancer, are experts in evaluating and managing acute pain.
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Individual and county-level factors associated with use of multiple prescribers and multiple pharmacies to obtain opioid prescriptions in California. [PDF]
, 2012 Use of multiple prescribers and pharmacies is a means by which some individuals misuse opioids. Community characteristics may be important determinants of the likelihood of this phenomenon independent of individual-level factors. This was a retrospective
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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
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Baseline Assessment: Alaska's Capacity and Infrastructure for Prescription Opioid Misuse Prevention [PDF]
, 2017 The State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), Division of Behavioral Health (DBH) was awarded the Partnerships for Success (PFS) grant by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAHMSA) in 2015.
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The effects of pioglitazone, a PPARγ receptor agonist, on the abuse liability of oxycodone among nondependent opioid users [PDF]
, 2016 Aims: Activation of PPARγ by pioglitazone (PIO) has shown some efficacy in attenuating addictive-like responses in laboratory animals. The ability of PIO to alter the effects of opioids in humans has not been characterized in a controlled laboratory ...
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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 ...
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Litigation-Ending Sanctions: Alaska Courts’ Use of Rule 37 [PDF]
, 1985 Pain is a common symptom of a number of conditions including cancer and one of the most frequent reasons for seeking healthcare. Acute and chronic pain result in considerable discomfort with a detrimental impact on the quality of life.
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Physician reports of medication use with explicit intention of hastening the end of life in the absence of explicit patient request in general practice in Belgium [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Although the incidence of the use of life-ending drugs without explicit patient request has been estimated in several studies, in-depth empirical research on this controversial practice is nonexistent.
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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.
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