Problematisation and regulation: bodies, risk, and recovery within the context of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome [PDF]
Background Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) is an anticipated effect of maternal drug use during pregnancy. Yet it remains a contested area of policy and practice.
Chandler, Amy +5 more
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The Kids Are Not Alright: Leveraging Existing Health Law to Attack the Opioid Crisis Upstream [PDF]
The opioid crisis is now a nationwide epidemic, ravaging both rural and urban communities. The public health and economic consequences are staggering; recent estimates suggest the epidemic has contracted the U.S. labor market by over one million jobs and
Cannon, Yael
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Is there a potential of misuse for venlafaxine and bupropion? [PDF]
© 2018 Schifano and Chiappini. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the ...
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Objective: Less than one-in-four patients with opioid use disorder receive opioid agonist treatment. This is in part due to the fact that less than 60 % of pharmacies stock and dispense buprenorphine products for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD)
Tyler J. Varisco +12 more
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Mind Your Meds: Safe Opioid Disposal Awareness [PDF]
Driven by the effects of the opioid epidemic on friends, family members, students, and patients, members of the 2019 GEHLI Team “Mission Possible” are dedicated to bolstering educational awareness of safe leftover opioid disposal methods to decrease the ...
at Virginia Commonwealth University, The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute +7 more
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The intentional misuse of psychotropic drugs is recognized as a significant public health concern in Canada, although there is a lack of empirical research detailing this.
Colleen Anne Dell +6 more
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Promoting consistent use of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) in outpatient pharmacies: Removing administrative barriers and increasing awareness of Rx drug abuse [PDF]
Background Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are proving to be valuable resources in fighting the prescription drug abuse epidemic through improved access to patient drug histories.
Norwood, Connor W., Wright, Eric R.
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Association Between Opioid Use and Emergency Department Visits for Spine-Related Disorders
Chijioke Okeke,1,2 Godwin Okoye,3 J Douglas Thornton1,2 1The Prescription Drug Misuse Education and Research (PREMIER) Center, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA; 2Department of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy, College
Okeke C, Okoye G, Thornton JD
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Chronic Pain Management With Opioids: An Assessment of Alaska Nurse Practitioner Practices [PDF]
Presented to the Faculty of the University of Alaska Anchorage in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCEThe purpose of this project was to determine chronic opioid pain management practices of Alaskan Nurse ...
Klein, Stephanie
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Eye drop Self-medication: Comparative Questionnaire-based study of two Latin American cities. [PDF]
A broad spectrum of ocular symptoms are treated by self-medication with commercial eye-drops. This behavior threatens individuals' visual health. In Latin America, evidence is poor.
Gramajo, Ana L. +7 more
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