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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
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Opioid-related harms and care impacts of conventional and AI-based prescription management strategies: insights from leveraging agent-based modeling and machine learning

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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Laboratory Testing for Prescription Opioids [PDF]

Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2012
Opioid analgesic misuse has risen significantly over the past two decades, and these drugs now represent the most commonly abused class of prescription medications. They are a major cause of poisoning deaths in the USA exceeding heroin and cocaine. Laboratory testing plays a role in the detection of opioid misuse and the evaluation of patients with ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Prescription opioid use and misuse among adolescents and young adults in the United States: A national survey study.

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, John J Porter, Michael C Monuteaux, Florence T Bourgeois   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Combating the Opioid Epidemic: Experience with a Single Prescription for Total Joint Arthroplasty

Arthroplasty Today, 2020
Background: Despite advances in perioperative total joint arthroplasty (TJA) pain protocols, opiates continue to play a major role in postoperative pain control.
Daniel Sun, MD, Antonio Cusano, MD, Melvin A. Harrington, MD, Mohamad J. Halawi, MD   +3 more
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Recreational marijuana legalization and prescription opioids received by Medicaid enrollees [PDF]

, 2019
OBJECTIVES: Medical marijuana use may substitute prescription opioid use, whereas nonmedical marijuana use may be a risk factor of prescription opioid misuse.
Shi, Yuyan, Wallace, Mark S, An, Ruopeng, Liang, Di, Bao, Yuhua, Grant, Igor   +5 more
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Abuse and Diversion of Immediate Release Opioid Analgesics as Compared to Extended Release Formulations in the United States.

PLoS ONE, 2016
BackgroundTherapeutic use and abuse of prescription opioids in the United States increased substantially between 1990 and 2010. The Centers for Disease Control estimated deaths related to pharmaceutical opioids reached nearly 19,000 in 2014.
Janetta L Iwanicki, S Geoff Severtson, Heather McDaniel, Andrew Rosenblum, Chunki Fong, Theodore J Cicero, Matthew S Ellis, Steven P Kurtz, Mance E Buttram, Richard C Dart   +9 more
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Physician self-identified race and opioid prescription practices in upper extremity injuries in the pediatric emergency departmentArticle summary

Heliyon, 2023
Background: Minority children have been shown to receive fewer opioid analgesics for acute pain. Objective: Assess if both White and non-White physicians prescribe fewer opioids to non-White children presenting to the pediatric emergency department (PED)
Joseph Langham, Sherita Holmes, Janet Figueroa, Srikant Iyer, Sarah Lazarus, Scott Gillespie, Carmen Sulton   +6 more
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Exploring high opioid prescriptions among nephrologists in the United States using machine learning algorithms

Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health
Background and aims: The opioid pandemic has contributed to deaths globally, and prescription opioids have played a crucial role in these deaths. Addressing overdose requires understanding the reasons behind prescription, especially in cases of chronic ...
Shivashankar Basapura Chandrashekarappa, Sulaf Assi, Manoj Jayabalan, Abdullah Al-Hamid, Dhiya Al-Jumeily   +4 more
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Educating physicians on strong opioids by descriptive versus simulated-experience formats: a randomized controlled trial

BMC Medical Education, 2022
Background Long-term prescriptions of strong opioids for chronic noncancer pain—which are not supported by scientific evidence—suggest miscalibrated risk perceptions among those who prescribe, dispense, and take opioids.
Odette Wegwarth, Claudia Spies, Wolf-Dieter Ludwig, Norbert Donner-Banzhoff, Günther Jonitz, Ralph Hertwig   +5 more
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