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Relevance of early management by proton-pump inhibitor in acute upper gastro-intestinal tract disorder: A scoping review.

Sep 25, 2023

Proton-pump inhibitors (PPI) are frequently used in the emergency and general practice settings in several clinical presentations linked to acute upper gastro-intestinal tract disorders as abdominal o...

Impact of a pre-test measurement of alcohol craving in cue-exposure studies: relationship with social desirability and demand effects.

Sep 04, 2023

Craving is one of the most studied concepts in the field of addiction. It is often investigated with repeated measure experimental designs using self-reported scales. However, the explicit nature of s...

An in-depth association analysis of genetic variants within nicotine-related loci: Meeting in middle of GWAS and genetic fine-mapping.

Aug 28, 2023

In the last two decades of Genome-wide association studies (GWAS), nicotine-dependence-related genetic loci (e.g., nicotinic acetylcholine receptor - nAChR subunit genes) are among the most replicable...

Methods used to quit vaping among adolescents and associations with perceived risk, addiction, and socio-economic status.

Aug 21, 2023

Despite widespread evidence suggesting that e-cigarettes are harmful to youth, the prevalence of adolescent vaping continues to rise. The first aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine which...

The effect of technology addiction training given to nursing students on the perspectives and addiction levels of students.

Aug 07, 2023

The study was conducted to investigate the effect of technology addiction training given to nursing students on their Internet and technology addiction perspectives and addiction levels.The data of th...

Sex and gender differences in healthcare utilisation trajectories: a cohort study among Quebec workers living with chronic pain.

Jul 31, 2023

Chronic pain (CP) is a poorly recognised and frequently inadequately treated condition affecting one in five adults. Reflecting on sociodemographic disparities as barriers to CP care in Canada was rec...

#VisualAbstract: Lower rates of medication treatment for opioid use disorder in Black and Hispanic patients

Jun 14, 2023

Bookmark1. In this retrospective study of Medicare claims data from 2016 to 2019, receipt of opioid use disorder (OUD) medications (buprenorphine and naloxone) was lower among Black and Hispanic patie...

Promoting research engagement among women with addiction: Impact of recovery peer support in a pilot randomized mixed-methods study.

May 22, 2023

The impact of involving peers on research engagement is largely unknown. The purpose of this pilot study, a part of a larger research, was to evaluate the impact of recovery peer involvement as a stud...

Rhynchophylline inhibits methamphetamine dependence via modulating the miR-181a-5p/GABRA1 axis.

May 15, 2023

Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Miq. ex Havil. is a plant species that is routinely devoted in traditional Chinese medicine to treat central nervous system disorders. Rhynchophylline (Rhy), a predominant...

Effect of Pain Education Interventions on Registered Nurses' Pain Management: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Apr 10, 2023

This review and meta-analysis aims to reveal how pain education interventions affect registered nurses' pain management.A systematic review and meta-analysis DATA SOURCES: PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL (EBSC...

Pure Laparoscopic Donor Left Hepatectomy Reduces Postoperative Analgesic Use and Pain Scale.

Apr 10, 2023

Many recent reports have described the efficacy and safety of pure laparoscopic donor hepatectomy (PLDH). Here we investigated the extent to which this technique could reduce patients' experienced pai...

Association between pediatric TBI and mental health and substance use disorders: A scoping review.

Mar 06, 2023

The relationship between pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and long-term mental health and substance use disorders is not well known, resulting in inadequate prevention and management strategies....

Mood Variability, Craving, and Substance Use Disorders: From Intrinsic Brain Network Connectivity to Daily Life Experience.

Feb 13, 2023

Substance use disorders (SUDs) are major contributors to morbidity and mortality rates worldwide, and this global burden is attributable in large part to the chronic nature of these conditions. Increa...

Transcriptomics and metabolomics together reveal the underlying mechanism of heroin hepatotoxicity.

Dec 12, 2022

Researches on heroin are more about addiction and some infectious diseases it causes, but liver fibrosis caused by heroin abuse and the mechanism of heroin hepatotoxicity in addicts are ignored. To ex...

Development, evaluation and adaptation of a critical realism informed theory of procedural pain management in preterm infants: The PAIN-Neo theory.

Dec 05, 2022

To present the development, evaluation and adaptation of the PAIN-Neo theory.Theory development.A review of literature was conduct from 1980 to 2021.Using a critical realism paradigm, this paper prese...

National Trends and Prescription Patterns in Opiate Analgesia

Jul 08, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to examine the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) database for regional and temporal patterns, as well as characteristics linked with the chance ...

Healthcare Exposure Ups Opioid Misuse Risk in Young Adults

Jun 24, 2022

Young adults exposed to inpatient hospitalizations, EDs, or mental health facilities had an increased risk for opioid misuse later in adulthood. Opioid misuse increased dramatically throughout ...

From the Physician Editor-in-Chief - Chronic Pain: We Need to Ask “Why?”

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...

A descriptive survey of substance use treatment facilities in Uasin Gishu County Kenya.

May 16, 2022

Substance use disorders are a major problem in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. The objective of this study was to describe the existing resources within substance use treatment facilities in the County, wi...

Analgesic effect of auricular point acupressure for acute pain in patients with dementia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

May 16, 2022

Common and frequent as acute pain is, it is often underestimated and undertreated in older people with dementia in nursing homes and inadequate pain management remains an issue.The study is designed t...