Opioids
Jun 17, 2022
Providers should not continue prescribing opioids to patients with HIV when risks outweigh benefits, but they need to factor the risks of stopping opioids into the equation. “There are specif...
May 31, 2022
According to the CDC, there are approximately 50 million people in the US living in chronic pain. We all know about the opioid crisis, and this knowledge has done nothing to help alleviate pain many a...
May 23, 2022
Assess the effect of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery with and without liposomal bupivacaine (LB) on opioid use, hospital length of stay (LOS), costs, and morbidity of women undergoing sacrocolpopexy.R...
May 23, 2022
In perilous and stressful situations, the ability to suppress pain can be critical for survival. The rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) contains neurons that robustly inhibit nociception at the level ...
May 16, 2022
Opioid and beta-adrenergic receptors are recently shown to cross talk via formation of receptor heterodimers to control the growth and proliferation of breast cancer cells. However, the underlying cel...
May 09, 2022
It is critical to develop empirically based, community-treatment friendly, psychotherapy interventions to improve treatment for patients with comorbid chronic pain and Opioid Use Disorder. Understandi...
May 09, 2022
Evidence continues to show that young people, ages 15-24, remain at significant risk of harms from non-medical opioid use and opioid use disorder (OUD), with experts calling for widespread implementat...
May 02, 2022
The recent opioid epidemic in the United States has led to rising prevalence of maternal opioid use disorder (OUD). First-line treatment for maternal OUD involves the use of opioid agonist pharmacothe...
Apr 25, 2022
To examine whether young adult opioid misuse reflects a general tendency toward substance use and is influenced by general substance use risk or whether it is a different phenomenon from other drug us...
Apr 18, 2022
Illicitly-manufactured fentanyls (fentanyl) have changed the risk environment of people who use drugs (PWUD). In California and many western US states, the opioid overdose rate spiked from 2016 to 202...
Apr 18, 2022
Curative treatment for locally advanced head and neck tumours often includes reconstructive surgery using a microvascular free flap. Effective recuperation is essential but may be impeded by postopera...
Apr 11, 2022
Pain assessment and management of Veterans with Alzheimer's disease and Related Dementia (ADRD) living in Community Living Centers (CLCs) is challenging. Safe and effective use of opioids in the treat...
Apr 04, 2022
Opioid use disorder is a serious public health crisis in the United States. Manifestations such as opioid overdose events (OOEs) vary within and across communities and there is growing evidence that t...
Mar 28, 2022
The majority of pediatric patients with choledochal cysts (CDC) are symptomatic prior to undergoing CDC excision. This study investigated the impact of surgical timing of CDC excision on postoperative...
Mar 21, 2022
Patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) often require opioids for pain control. The goal of our study was to characterize opioid use in patients with CP in a real-life practice using a state-mandated ...
Mar 21, 2022
Strict adherence to pharmacological dosage regimens is a prerequisite to the success of most treatments, particularly for patients in drug abuse programs. The compliance of tramadol, an atypical non-s...
Mar 14, 2022
"Lock-in" programs are used by health insurers to reduce the risk of adverse outcomes that can result from overutilization of opioids and other controlled substances. We estimated the association betw...
Mar 07, 2022
The tail of the ventral tegmental area (tVTA) or rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg) receives lateral habenula inputs and projects heavily to midbrain dopamine neurons. Midbrain dopamine and lateral...
Feb 28, 2022
People who inject drugs (PWID) living with HIV are a priority population for eliminating hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a public health threat. Maximizing access to HCV prevention and treatment strategies...
Feb 21, 2022
To compare the odds of early and prolonged post-operative opioid use in patients undergoing minimally invasive surgery (MIS) versus open surgery for nephrectomy.For opioid-naïve patients in Ontario w...
