Mar 06, 2023

As rates of overdoses involving opioids continue to rise in the United States, community pharmacies are uniquely positioned as a central access point of care for individuals to access harm reduction s...

Jul 05, 2022

Evidence indicates that pain avoidance behaviors are often heightened after recent pain events and can be disrupted when people experience uncontrollable stress. “This disruption can lead to malad...

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...

Apr 28, 2022

The researchers sought to determine and compare the relationship between drug-induced Parkinsonism (DIP) and tardive dyskinesia (TD) and HRQOL in schizophrenia for a study. The Positive and Negative 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...

Aug 05, 2021

Considering most people who inject drugs (PWID) received help with the first injection, understanding the perspective of potential 'initiators' is a priority to inform harm reduction interventions. Th...

Jul 31, 2021

Despite a need for more robust evidence, many patients with chronic pain are being treated with medical cannabis and cannabinoids. In the Journal of Cannabis Research, the Global Task Force on Dosing ...

Jul 20, 2021

A study has found that opioid prescriptions, including receipt of prescriptions for long durations, appear to be common among people living with HIV who are in primary care. Efforts are needed to prev...

Jun 23, 2021

The burden of chronic liver disease in the United States is substantial, affecting about 4.5 million American adults, according to recent data. The end result of chronic liver disease is cirrhosis, wh...

Mar 25, 2021

In a 2018 report titled, Quantifying the Epidemic of Prescription Opioid Overdose Deaths, four senior analysts of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including the head of the Epidem...

Mar 22, 2021

According to recent data, nearly 50% of adolescents who misuse prescription opioids report obtaining the drugs from relatives or friends. Understanding the parental origins of adolescent prescription ...

Feb 25, 2021

Resilience is defined as the capacity for an individual to maintain normal functioning and resist the development of psychiatric disorders in response to stress and trauma. Although previous investiga...

Feb 25, 2021

Methadone and buprenorphine can affect the psychological symptoms and cognitive functioning of substance users. This study aimed to compare psychological symptoms and neuropsychological functioning in...

Feb 25, 2021

The United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. Emerging evidence suggests that medical cannabis (MC) may reduce use of opioids for pain in some individuals, with potential impacts o...

Feb 22, 2021

Despite major advances, there remains a need for novel anesthetic drugs or drug combinations with improved efficacy and safety profiles. Here, we show that inhibition of cAMP-phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4...

Feb 22, 2021

The major problems of morphine use in the clinic are its tolerance and dependence. This study aimed to investigate the effect of suvorexant, a dual orexin receptor antagonist, on morphine-induced depe...

Feb 22, 2021

In recent years, a number of emergency department (ED)-based interventions have been developed to provide supports and/or treatment linkage for people who use opioids. However, there is limited resear...

Feb 18, 2021

Acute low back pain (LBP) is highly prevalent, with a presumed favorable prognosis; however, once chronic, LBP becomes a disabling and expensive condition. Acute to chronic LBP transition rates vary w...

Feb 18, 2021

Prenatal opioids exposure negatively affects the neurobehavioral abilities of children born from dependence dams. Adolescent housing conditions can buffer the detrimental impacts of early life experie...

Feb 18, 2021

Opioid agonists are used in clinic for pain management, however this application is challenged by development of tolerance and dependence following prolonged exposure. Various approaches have been sug...