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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Opioid Crisis"”.
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An Analysis of the Opioid Crisis in Nevada
… much of the research surrounding the National Opioid crisis focuses on overdose fatalities, this study seeks to examine the more understudied aspect of potential misuse, abuse and diversion in the form of high pill and morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs) of these opioid prescriptions in the …
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The Rhetoric of the Opioid Crisis and Addiction to Prescription Pain Medicine
… moment, the United States is amidst an opioid crisis killing the young and the old; at least seventy-eight people die every day from an opioid-related overdose (Enomoto in Murthy III). Changing mindsets of the doctors who prescribe opioids is just as important as asking the patients who …
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Safe injections sites as a solution to the opioid crisis : a policy analysis
Over the past 20 years, the fatality rate from opioid and drug overdoses has dramatically increased in the United States. Clearly, a solution is needed to address this vast and serious problem. While Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently enacted legislation investing over $800 million towards …
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The U.S. Opioid Crisis and the Affordable Care Act (ACA): The Politics of Health Policy Decision-Making by Republican Governors, Senators, and States
… United States was under way in the form of the opioid crisis. At its onset white non-Hispanic individuals (WNH), frequently of lower- or middle- socioeconomic class, were most heavily impacted by substance use disorder and opioid use disorder (SUD/OUD). This demographic also overlapped …
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Rural Community Perspectives and Actions Taken to Build Consensus on the Opioid Crisis in Southern Virginia: A Community-Based Participatory Multiphase Mixed Methods Study
Background: Opioid use disorder (OUD), prescription opioid misuse, and increased heroin use are major public health crises in the US. Excessive non-medical use of prescription opioids and illicit drugs can alter the brain, disrupt mental health, and increase the risk of blood-borne illnesses and …
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Essays on Insurance Asset-Liability Dynamics
… of insurance companies and the impact of the opioid crisis on business credit. The first essay examines the impact of demand shocks on the investment decisions of insurers. Insurance companies are among the largest institutional investors, and their decisions have important implications for …
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Just Passing Through
… racism and misogyny, Greek mythology, and the opioid crisis.
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The Social Organization of Opioid Use for Chronic Pain
… ethnography of the social organization of opioid use for chronic pain management in Ontario, Canada. Within the context of the contemporary ‘opioid crisis,’ people with chronic pain have found their access to prescription opioids restricted as physicians rapidly taper patients’ doses, adopt …
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Prevention & Reduction of Opioid Misuse with Systems Exploration: Modelling complex, uncertain problems for policy development
The opioid crisis is one of the worst public health challenges in the United States, with overdoses killing over 50,000 people a year. The crisis is a complex and dynamic problem, with long delays and multiple feedbacks, in which any policy actions risk causing adverse unintended consequences. …
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Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence in the United States – Identifying Implications for Policy and Practice
<p>Americans make and use the most opioids in the world. Although comprising somewhat less than 5% of the world’s population, the United States (US) produces approximately 90% of the global supply of Hydrocodone and consumes an estimated 80% of the total international supply. It is not surprising, …
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Experiences of Postpartum Women in One Residential Treatment Facility for Substance Use Disorders: A Qualitative Case Study
<p>A growing opioid crisis in the United States has sparked a need for gender-specific research and treatment to address unmet needs and promote positive health outcomes for both women and children. The primary purpose of this research is to provide insight into the experiences and perceptions of …
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Urban And Rural Comparisons Of Attitudes Toward Medically Assisted Treatment For Pregnant And Postpartum Women With Oud In Appalachia
The opioid crisis has plagued the United States but disproportionately affects the often-overlooked Appalachian region. This area faces unique barriers preventing better access to quality Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) treatment facilities despite opioid-related deaths continuing to rise. An especially …
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Assessing Concurrent Use of Opioids and Benzodiazepines Using Urine Drug Test Results
… to assess concurrent use of benzodiazepines and opioids, using laboratory results from urine toxicology records. The opioid crisis is an ongoing public health issue that has spanned over two decades. Drug overdose death is now the leading cause of accidental deaths among American adults. Patients …
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Gender Differences in Opioid Prescribing Patterns among Adults in the US
… project aims to evaluate gender differences in opioid prescribing in ambulatory care and emergency department settings. The retrospective analysis of opioid prescribing rates in the US included all adult medical visits from 2006-2016. Data was collected from two nationally representative …
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Investigating the Cell-specific Mechanisms That Drive Sex Differences During Neuropathic Pain Development
… This, coupled with the devastating impact of the opioid crisis, highlights the need for novel pain therapeutics. An extensive literature has placed microglia, the resident immune cells of the central nervous system, at the forefront of male-specific mechanisms that mediate chronic pain plasticity. …
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The Impact of Neighbourhood-Level Marginalization on risk of Opioid Overdose and Opioid Use Disorder
Background: Canada is in the midst of an opioid crisis, characterized by a dramatic increase in opioid-related poisonings, deaths, and dependency over the course of several years. Neighbourhood-level marginalization, defined as the degree to which individuals living within a neighbourhood are …
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Assess Effectiveness of Opioid Prescription Policies for Acute Pain Management
… of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared the Opioid Crisis a public health emergency. Regulatory agencies and institutions have adopted several guidelines to ensure opioids are prescribed appropriately. In October 2014, the DEA changed the schedule of hydrocodone combination products (HCPs) …
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Ecologies of addiction in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
… supremacy as conjoined pathologies. The ongoing opioid crisis in the U.S. underscores the importance of not just engaging these early histories to better understand the construction of addiction, but the necessity of balancing networked complexity with the lived experience of those who suffer. I …
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Changes in Self-Concept and Substance-Related Cognitions During Short-Term Residential Substance Use Treatment
The United States is in the midst of an opioid crisis, with more than 130 people dying each day from an opioid overdose (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2018a). Given the recent spike in overdose deaths associated with highly potent synthetic opioids (i.e., fentanyl), there are …
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