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Opioid Analgesic Prescribing Practices of Dental Professionals in the United States [PDF]
, 2017 The prescription of opioid analgesics by dental professionals is widespread in the United States. Policy makers, government agencies, and professional organizations consider this phenomenon a growing public health concern.
Okunseri, Christopher +4 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2006 Background The growing trends in opioid abuse, assessment of the abuse liability of prescription opioid products, and growing efforts by the pharmaceutical industry to develop 'abuse-resistant' formulations highlight a need to understand the features ...
Fernandez Kathrine C +6 more
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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
Han, Huijun +3 more
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Long‐Term Opioids in Gout: A Matched Cohort Study From the Veterans Health Administration
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Though used frequently to treat flare, risk of long‐term opioid exposure in gout has not been well defined. In this study, we examined the hypothesis that people with gout are more likely than individuals without gout to be prescribed long‐term opioids over time.
Lindsay N. Helget +7 more
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Extended Topic Model Based Abnormal Medical Prescription Detection Method
Jisuanji kexue yu tansuo, 2020 Abnormal prescriptions refer to abnormal prescriptions prescribed by doctors for patients. Abnormalities in medical prescription, such as drug abuse and incorrect medicine, will affect the efficiency of treatment and even result in serious consequence ...
LIU Shaoqin, TANG Shuang, ZHAO Junfeng, WANG Yasha, ZHUO Lin
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Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021 Objective: Opioids are a class of drugs that are known for their use as pain relievers. They bind to opioid receptors on nerve cells in the brain and the nervous system to mitigate pain.
Ramya Vunikili +7 more
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Polypharmacy Among Prescription Drug Users [PDF]
, 2017 Polypharmacy, i.e., the misuse of multiple prescription drugs or prescription medication with other substances, is highly problematic. Whether unintentional or deliberate, misuse of multiple drugs can lead to adverse effects including addiction; drug ...
Greene, Marion S., Omenka, Issac
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Reconfigurable Magnetic Soft Microrobot for Acoustically Triggered Targeted Bacterial Sterilization
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Reconfigurable magnetic soft microrobots integrate in situ‐grown piezoelectric zinc oxide nanorods that produce reactive oxygen species upon acoustic excitation. Combining magnetically guided transport with thermally induced planar reconfiguration, the microrobots achieve targeted delivery and enhanced bacterial sterilization through efficient on ...
Quan Gao +12 more
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Pharmaceuticals, 2022 In the past twenty years, the consumption of opioid medications has reached significant proportions, leading to a rise in drug misuse and abuse and increased opioid dependence and related fatalities.
Stefania Chiappini +6 more
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Spatial Concentration of Opioid Overdose Deaths in Indianapolis: An Application of the Law of Crime Concentration at Place to a Public Health Epidemic [PDF]
, 2019 The law of crime concentration at place has become a criminological axiom and the foundation for one of the strongest evidence-based policing strategies to date.
Carter, Jeremy G. +2 more
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