Guidelines for opioid prescribing in children and adolescents after surgery: an expert panel opinion

LI Kelley-Quon, MG Kirkpatrick, RL Ricca, R Baird… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Opioids are frequently prescribed to children and adolescents after surgery.
Prescription opioid misuse is associated with high-risk behavior in youth. Evidence-based …

Association between prescription drug monitoring programs and nonfatal and fatal drug overdoses: a systematic review

DS Fink, JP Schleimer, A Sarvet, KK Grover… - Annals of internal …, 2018 - acpjournals.org
Background: Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are a key component of the
president's Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Plan to prevent opioid overdoses in the …

Increases in depressive symptoms, suicide-related outcomes, and suicide rates among US adolescents after 2010 and links to increased new media screen time

JM Twenge, TE Joiner, ML Rogers… - Clinical psychological …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In two nationally representative surveys of US adolescents in grades 8 through 12 (N=
506,820) and national statistics on suicide deaths for those ages 13 to 18, adolescents' …

The major causes of death in children and adolescents in the United States

RM Cunningham, MA Walton… - New England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
The Major Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States | New England
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Persistent opioid use among pediatric patients after surgery

CM Harbaugh, JS Lee, HM Hu, SE McCabe… - …, 2018 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND: Despite efforts to reduce nonmedical opioid misuse, little is known about
the development of persistent opioid use after surgery among adolescents and young …

Alcohol and opioid use, co‐use, and chronic pain in the context of the opioid epidemic: A critical review

K Witkiewitz, KE Vowles - Alcoholism: clinical and experimental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The dramatic increase in opioid misuse, opioid use disorder (OUD), and opioid‐related
overdose deaths in the United States has led to public outcry, policy statements, and funding …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between adolescent chronic pain and prescription opioid misuse in adulthood

CB Groenewald, EF Law, E Fisher, SE Beals-Erickson… - The journal of pain, 2019 - Elsevier
Prescription opioid misuse is a serious public health concern, yet antecedent factors are
poorly described. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult …

Inconsistent and excessive opioid prescribing after common pediatric surgical operations

JD Horton, S Munawar, C Corrigan, D White… - Journal of pediatric …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives Opioid misuse has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Post-
operative opioids have been linked to overdose, diversion, and dependency in adults, but …

Emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic factor underlying co-occurring chronic pain and problematic opioid use.

RV Aaron, PH Finan, ST Wegener, FJ Keefe… - American …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Chronic pain is a common and costly condition, and some people with chronic pain engage
in problematic opioid use. There is a critical need to identify factors underlying this co …

Addressing adolescent substance use with a public health prevention framework: the case for harm reduction

JM Winer, AM Yule, SE Hadland, SM Bagley - Annals of medicine, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Adolescence is a developmental stage defined in part by risk-taking. Risk-taking is critical to
normal development and has important benefits including trying new activities and exploring …