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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Prescription opioids"”.
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Determinants and Effectiveness of Nonpharmacologic Pain Interventions Versus Prescription Opioids
… pain treatments became more common than prescription opioids beginning in 2015 among adults with chronic, but not surgical, pain. Secondary findings from Aim 1 suggested that disparities—based on race, education, and income—impeded access to pain treatments. The Agency for Healthcare …
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Euphoria: The Transition from Prescription Opioids to Heroin in Kentucky
<p>The demand for and availability of prescription opioids has been quite prevalent in the state of Kentucky primarily since the early 1990's. But between 2010 and 2012, reformulations of opioids OxyContin and Opana, along with the passing of HB 217 and mandatory KASPER (Kentucky All Schedule …
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The Impact of Long Term Opioid Medication on Oral Antihyperglycmic Medication Adherence and Subsequent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Related Hospitalization Risk among Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Database Analysis
Prescription opioids are a highly prescribed class of medication, which when administered over long durations can lead to negative effects (e.g., addiction, non-medical use). Prescription opioids are often prescribed concomitantly with antihyperglycemic medication among patients with T2DM. Due to …
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The economics of pain management
… state-level variation in the introduction of Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) laws as a source of plausibly exogenous variation in availability of prescription opioids. I employ several rich data sources, including individual-level administrative medical claims data linked to work …
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Nursing Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes About Pain Management and Opioids
… healthcare professionals’ knowledge of using opioids for pain management safely is critical in preventing opioid abuse and overdose. Undergraduate curricula of health professional schools, including undergraduate nursing programs, need to improve and adopt a comprehensive education regarding …
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Salient Beliefs and Social Influence on Intentions to Misuse Prescription Opioid Pain Relieving Drugs for Recreational Purposes: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior
… Behavior (TPB) in predicting intentions to use prescription opioid pain relieving drugs for recreational purposes among a sample of college students, while identifying salient beliefs that underlie recreational use in order to inform future intervention efforts among this population. …
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Predicting post-surgical opioid consumption using perioperative surgical data
Improper consumption of prescription opioids is a massive public health issue in the United States currently. Here, we propose one approach of tackling this issue through using machine learning techniques to predict opioid consumption post discharge for surgical patients. Through the data collected …
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Behavioral Pharmacological Analysis of Deep Brain Stimulation Following Nerve Injury
… problem. Serious concerns arise over misuse of prescription opioids in chronic pain patients, a drug class representing the fastest growing substance abuse problem in the United States. Ascending pain pathways overlap significantly with limbic regions involved in reward and reinforcement, …
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Understanding Clinical Pain Management and Patient Experiences of Pain from Electronic Health Records
Opioid prescription practices in clinical settings are frequently variable and subjective. Improper usage of prescription opioids is in turn a massive public health issue in the United States. However, lack of pain medication can also lead to patients being unable to perform daily activities due to …
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Young Women and the Initiation Trajectory of Prescription Opioid Misuse
… epidemic characterized largely by the misuse of prescription opioids. The research questions here were focused on developing a greater understanding of the social processes involved in young women’s initiation of prescription opioid misuse (POM) during this first wave. The research methodology …
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An Ethical Analysis of Safe Supply
… these deaths were driven by overdoses from prescription opioids. Strict limits were placed on opioid prescriptions to decrease the supply of available opioids. Instead, this prompted a shift toward the illicit opioid market, causing an increase in heroin-related overdoses. Fentanyl, a …
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The Social Organization of Opioid Use for Chronic Pain
… with chronic pain have found their access to prescription opioids restricted as physicians rapidly taper patients’ doses, adopt ‘no narcotics policies,’ and bar people with chronic pain who use opioids from their practices. These changes in physicians’ work of prescribing opioids have had …
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A Two-Pronged Approach to Stemming the Opioid Epidemic: Preclinical Strategies for Substance Use Disorder Medications Development and Liquid Biopsy Detection of Inflammatory Pain
… driven by misuse of psychoactive drugs (e.g., prescription opioids, heroin). In consequence, this has generated a multitude of health issues, including overdoses, deaths and disability, as well as the increased incidence of opioid use disorder (OUD), a condition manifested by escalating …
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An Examination of Trends in the Rates of Low-Value Opioids Prescribed for Acute Low Back Pain in Rural vs. Non-Rural Virginia
… Prevention (CDC) recommends against the use of prescription opioids for most types of acute pain. Despite these recommendations, some evidence suggests that opioid prescribing for acute low back pain (LBP) - among the most common acute pain complaints - persists. This study evaluated trends in …
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Understanding Institutional Physician Chronic Opioid Prescription Practices for the Improved Implementation of Newly Developed EMR Tools
… each year and is often treated with chronic opioids. There has been a rise in prescription opioids over the past 20 years, accompanied by a rise in overdose deaths as well. In order to improve patient safety related to opioid prescribing, several state and national policies including the 2016 …
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The Political Economy of the Overdose Crisis in Western Canada: An Exploratory Case Study
… pressures, the illicit drug trade and prescription opioids and pain management as economic influences on overdose deaths within and across sites. Increased precarity due to employment changes inherent to neoliberalization is explored as a potential link to increased substance use for …
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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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Three Essays at the Intersection of Child Welfare and Public Policy
… with opioid use disorder transitioned from using prescription opioids to using heroin. If these individuals were caregivers of children, there would be a higher need for child welfare services, such as foster care. Although foster care case and entry rates increased after the reformulation, I find …
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Workplace injuries, early opioid prescribing, and disability in Washington State
… in overdose deaths and morbidity linked to prescription opioids. While subsequent policy interventions including Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) and updated clinical guidelines have been associated with a decrease in opioid prescribing rates, high-risk opioid prescribing …
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