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Inappropriate opioid prescription after surgery [PDF]
The Lancet, 2019 Worldwide, the use of prescription opioid analgesics more than doubled between 2001 and 2013, with several countries, including the USA, Canada, and Australia, experiencing epidemics of opioid misuse and abuse over this period. In this context, excessive prescribing of opioids for pain treatment after surgery has been recognised as an important concern
Mark D, Neuman +2 more
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Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.), 2019 Objective Individuals with chronic pain who misuse prescription opioids are at high risk for developing opioid use disorder and/or succumbing to opioid overdose.
A. Huhn +3 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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Pain Physician, 2018 The opioid epidemic has been called the "most consequential preventable public health problem in the United States." Though there is wide recognition of the role of prescription opioids in the epidemic, evidence has shown that heroin and synthetic ...
L. Manchikanti +5 more
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Opioids and Public Health: The Prescription Opioid Ecosystem and Need for Improved Management
Anesthesiology, 2021 While U.S. opioid prescribing has decreased 38% in the past decade, opioid deaths have increased 300%. This opioid paradox is poorly recognized. Current approaches to opioid management are not working, and new approaches are needed.
E. Kharasch, J. Clark, Jerome M. Adams
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Frontiers in Digital Health, 2023 IntroductionLike its counterpart to the south, Canada ranks among the top five countries with the highest rates of opioid prescriptions. With many suffering from opioid use disorder first having encountered opioids via prescription routes, practitioners ...
Narjes Shojaati, Nathaniel D. Osgood
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Trauma and acute care surgeons report prescribing less opioids over time. [PDF]
, 2019 IntroductionConfronted with the opioid epidemic, surgeons must play a larger role to reduce risk of opioid abuse while managing acute pain. Having a better understanding of the beliefs and practices of trauma and acute care surgeons regarding discharge ...
Anderson, Jamie E +2 more
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Trends in Medical and Nonmedical Use of Prescription Opioids Among US Adolescents: 1976–2015
Pediatrics, 2017 National trends in medical and nonmedical use of prescription opioids among US adolescents overall and in different sociodemographic subgroups were examined between 1976 and 2015.
S. McCabe +5 more
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PLoS Medicine, 2019 BACKGROUND:Prescription opioid misuse has become a leading cause of unintentional injury and death among adolescents and young adults in the United States.
Joel D Hudgins +3 more
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British medical journal, 2017 Objectives To identify trends in concurrent use of a benzodiazepine and an opioid and to identify the impact of these trends on admissions to hospital and emergency room visits for opioid overdose.
E. Sun +5 more
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