Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response

AC Tsai, MV Kiang, ML Barnett, L Beletsky… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
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The opioid crisis in North America: facts and future lessons for Europe

K Ayoo, J Mikhaeil, A Huang… - Anaesthesiology intensive …, 2020 - termedia.pl
Over the past two decades, opioid-related hospitalizations and deaths in North America
have reached the level of a public health emergency. Initially, the epidemic of opioid misuse …

Regulator of G-protein signaling (RGS) protein modulation of opioid receptor signaling as a potential target for pain management

NB Senese, R Kandasamy, KE Kochan… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Opioid drugs are the gold standard for the management of pain, but their use is severely
limited by dangerous and unpleasant side effects. All clinically available opioid analgesics …

Opioid use disorder and COVID-19: biological plausibility for worsened outcomes

J Schimmel, AF Manini - Substance use & misuse, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
abstract Background Alarms have been raised that COVID-19 may disproportionately affect
certain populations with substance use disorders, particularly Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) …

Hospitalization associated with comorbid psychiatric and substance use disorders among adults with COVID-19 treated in US emergency departments from April 2020 …

LZ Schieber, C Dunphy, RA Schieber… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance During the COVID-19 pandemic, US emergency department (ED) visits for
psychiatric disorders (PDs) and drug overdoses increased. Psychiatric disorders and …

Closed-loop wearable naloxone injector system

J Chan, V Iyer, A Wang, A Lyness, P Kooner… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Overdoses from non-medical use of opioids can lead to hypoxemic/hypercarbic respiratory
failure, cardiac arrest, and death when left untreated. Opioid toxicity is readily reversed with …

[HTML][HTML] Nobody wants to Be Narcan'd: A pilot qualitative analysis of drug users' perspectives on naloxone

JT Lai, CE Goldfine, BP Chapman… - Western journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods We conducted a pilot study of adults presenting to the emergency department
whose medical history included non-medical opioid use. Semi-structured interviews were …

Mobilizing pharmacists to address the opioid crisis: a joint opinion of the ambulatory care and adult medicine practice and research networks of the American College …

SA Coon, LG Hill, RW Hutchison… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The opioid crisis represents one of the largest failures of our current health care system as it
continues to claim lives at an unprecedented rate and has caused a devastating range of …

Evidence-based opioid prescribing guidelines and new persistent opioid use after surgery

R Howard, A Ryan, HM Hu, CS Brown, J Waljee… - Annals of …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Evaluate the association of evidence-based opioid prescribing guidelines with
new persistent opioid use after surgery. Summary Background Data: Patients exposed to …

Implementing hospital-based peer recovery support services for substance use disorder

EJ Liebling, JJS Perez, MM Litterer… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background The rise in drug overdose deaths in the United States necessitates novel
approaches to reduce harms. In response, peer recovery support services for substance use …