Opioid epidemic
The Role of Race and Class in Local Media Coverage of Utah's Opioid Epidemic
... A number of stories centered around instances of high-profile crime or otherwise sensational anecdotes, which can be seen as an example of moral panic. There were several stories that relied on dramatic, shocking, and ...
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Gabapentin use, abuse, and the US opioid epidemic: the case for reclassification as a controlled substance and the need for pharmacovigilance
... and opioid-related mortality increases ...the opioid epidemic – to forge ahead with legislative initiatives designed to reclassify and/or monitor the use of gaba- ...
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Overcoming America’s Opioid Epidemic Will Need Action Not Words
... the opioid epidemic has become a pivotal driver of declining labor force participation ...in opioid prescriptions from 1999 to 2015 may account for about 20 percent of the observed decline in the ...
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The opioid epidemic: a central role for the blood brain barrier in opioid analgesia and abuse
... of opioid pain ...used opioid pain pills before the first time the individual used heroin range from 40 to 86% but was enough to suggest a relationship ...an opioid in the past month began to use ...
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The Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on the Dynamics of the Opioid Epidemic
... Figure 1: Doctor Shopping Activity in New York ………………………………………4 Figure 2: Model #1. Implementation of the Everingham & Rydell and Caulkins model.30 Figure 3: Model #2 Light and Heavy Users; Deaths from Heavy User ...
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Mental Illness and Opioid Epidemic in the United States
... Socio-economic factors such as poverty rate [r(50)=.12, p=.39] and median income per family [r(50)=.02, p=.90], typically associated with most health issues in US, do not appear to be significantly related to the current ...
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The North American opioid epidemic: current challenges and a call for treatment as prevention
... American opioid epidemic. This epidemic is a fundamentally continental problem, as routes of migration, drug demand, and drug exchange link the USA with Mexico and ...of opioid medications, ...
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The prescription opioid epidemic: an update
... prescription opioid epidemic is decidedly more ethically ...prescription opioid diversion is a key component of defense strategies for all types of ...
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Confronting the opioid epidemic: public opinion toward the expansion of treatment services in Virginia
... the opioid problem evolves and even worsens, determin- ing public support (or opposition) for the expansion of treatment services in one’s own community is a critical component for policy makers given the ...
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Children in the Opioid Epidemic: Addressing the Next Generation’s Public Health Crisis
... the opioid epidemic for children and how these consequences can be prevented or ...an opioid use ...by opioid-related ...the opioid epidemic, a better evidence base can help ...
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Opioid epidemic-- is there an end in sight?
... The problem of addiction spares no age and afflicts even the unborn. Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) occurs when a fetus has been exposed to neuroactive substances in utero and then experiences withdrawal symptoms ...
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Responses among substance abuse treatment providers to the opioid epidemic in the USA: Variations in buprenorphine and methadone treatment by geography, operational, and payment characteristics, 2007-16.
... the opioid epidemic and its sustained impact on population health, our findings suggest that greater attention towards the provision of pharmacotherapies for the treatment of opioid-related use ...
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The Political Economy of the Opioid Epidemic
... the opioid epidemic, but its reach and consequences in this context depend at least as much on the constraints affecting tort litigation and access to courts (including limits on class actions and remedies) ...
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Putting Families First: How the Opioid Epidemic is Affecting Children and Families, and the Child Welfare Policy Options to Address It
... examine key policy considerations and options for this issue, including implementation of the recently enacted Family First Prevention Services Act, that offer alternative approaches to serving children and families ...
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Solving the Opioid Epidemic in Ohio
... there needs to be consequences. These deceptive marketing practices not only led to the opioid epidemic but have also been the background for rapidly increasing the seriousness of the epidemic. This ...
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Prescription opioid epidemic in Pennsylvania: lessons from Medicare and Medicaid
... program. Other study strengths include our focus on patients initiating an anti-depressant treatment in the baseline period with no prior opioid use, focus on patients with and without cancer, and two approaches ...
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The National Opioid Epidemic and the Risk of Outpatient Opioids in Children
... an opioid prescription. To confirm the relationship of the opioid prescription to the adverse event, medical records were then obtained on a subset of ∼875 cases, which were reviewed by 2 study ...
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Northwest Primary Care Practitioners Presentation Tackling the Opioid Epidemic in Oregon
... Dwight Holton Chief Executive Officer Lines for Life 971-244-1370. [email protected].[r] ...
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Youth and the Opioid Epidemic
... precede opioid and other drug use; thus, secondary prevention (ie, initiating treatment of other substance use before opioid use ever begins) is a logical ...
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Prescription Opioid Epidemic and Infant Outcomes
... on opioid type, dose, SSRI use, and number of cigarettes smoked per day by the mother (Fig 2, Table ...for opioid-exposed infants at different risk levels of developing ...
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