Large-scale Analysis of Opioid Poisoning Related Hospital Visits in New York State [PDF]
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018;2017:545-554, 2017 Opioid related deaths are increasing dramatically in recent years, and opioid epidemic is worsening in the United States. Combating opioid epidemic becomes a high priority for both the U.S. government and local governments such as New York State. Analyzing patient level opioid related hospital visits provides a data driven approach to discover both ...
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The dark side of opioids in pain management: basic science explains clinical observation
PAIN Reports, 2016 . Introduction:. In the past 2 decades, opioids have been used increasingly for the treatment of persistent pain, and doses have tended to creep up. As basic science elucidates mechanisms of pain and analgesia, the cross talk between central pain and ...
Cyril Rivat, Jane Ballantyne
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A Prospective Evaluation of Opioid Utilization After Upper-Extremity Surgical Procedures: Identifying Consumption Patterns and Determining Prescribing Guidelines. [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Although adequate management of postoperative pain with oral analgesics is an important aspect of surgical procedures, inadvertent overprescribing can lead to excess availability of opioids in the community for potential diversion.
Abboudi, Jack +10 more
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Detection of Opioid Users from Reddit Posts via an Attention-based Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network [PDF]
The opioid epidemic, referring to the growing hospitalizations and deaths because of overdose of opioid usage and addiction, has become a severe health problem in the United States. Many strategies have been developed by the federal and local governments and health communities to combat this crisis.
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Morphine for the Treatment of Pain in Sickle Cell Disease
The Scientific World Journal, 2015 Pain is a hallmark of sickle cell disease (SCD) and its treatment remains challenging. Opioids are the major family of analgesics that are commonly used for treating severe pain.
Mihir Gupta +3 more
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An inevitable wave of prescription drug monitoring programs in the context of prescription opioids: pros, cons and tensions [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: In an effort to control non-medical use and/or medical abuse of prescription drugs, particularly prescription opioids, electronic prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) have been introduced in North-American countries, Australia and ...
Islam, M. Mofizul, McRae, Ian S.
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Drug and Alcohol Dependence ReportsBackground: Xylazine is a sedative found increasingly in the illicit fentanyl supply that can cause hypotension, bradycardia, necrosis and death. This pilot examined the real-world performance of BTNX xylazine test strips (XTS) in drug residue samples ...
Erin Thompson +7 more
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Status and Rationality of Opioid Use in Lung Cancer Patients: A Single Center Retrospective Study
Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer, 2020 Background and objective Cancer pain affect the physical activity, psychological state and quality of life seriously, and even shortened the survival time of patients.
Wenjuan SUN +4 more
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A Background of the Opioid Epidemic and Its Relationship to the Medicaid Expansion [PDF]
, 2019 Despite the recent increase in public awareness of the opioid epidemic, the background of this epidemic is still disappointingly unknown to the public.
Jang, Er Yearn
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An opioid-like system regulating feeding behavior in C. elegans [PDF]
, 2015 Neuropeptides are essential for the regulation of appetite. Here we show that neuropeptides could regulate feeding in mutants that lack neurotransmission from the motor neurons that stimulate feeding muscles. We identified nlp-24 by an RNAi screen of 115
Artyukhin, Alexander B. +3 more
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