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Growing proportion of cardiac arrests in U.S. considered opioid related
Publish date: September 10, 2021
Due to a steep rise, opioid-associated cardiac arrests have become a major public health issue.
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‘Lopioid protocol’ – low-dose opioids – proposed for fracture surgery
Publish date: September 3, 2021
“Managing narcotics postoperatively can be challenging due to the fact that many people come into these fractures with a history of narcotic use.”
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High prevalence of Fall Risk–Increasing Drugs in older adults after falls
Publish date: September 2, 2021
Are we reducing use of Fall Risk–Increasing Drugs (FRIDs) after a fall, and if so, does it alone reduce fall risk?
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‘Deeper dive’ into opioid overdose deaths during COVID pandemic
Publish date: September 1, 2021
Results also showed that, compared to 2019, significantly more men died from overdoses in 2020 in Colorado and Indiana.
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EDs saw more benzodiazepine overdoses, but fewer patients overall, in 2020
Publish date: August 31, 2021
Fentanyl became increasingly involved in benzodiazepine overdose deaths through the first half of the year.
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Efficacy of gabapentin for treatment of alcohol use disorders
Publish date: August 25, 2021
Can gabapentin be used in the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD) to reduce heavy drinking and maintain abstinence?
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New tool predicts pain relief after gallbladder surgery
Publish date: August 25, 2021
“Until now, we did not know which patient with which symptoms would benefit most from this operation.”
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Urologic surgery tied to persistent opioid usage, particularly with tramadol
Publish date: August 23, 2021
“For me, the take-home message is that tramadol should not necessarily be considered less habit forming than other opioids, although further research is needed to substantiate this,” Dr. Sarah Faris said.
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Opioid prescribing laws having an impact
Publish date: August 11, 2021
The number of days an opioid was prescribed for each Medicare beneficiary decreased by 11.6 days in 2018 in states that imposed duration limits.
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Treatment of opioid use disorder with buprenorphine and methadone effective but underutilized
Publish date: July 19, 2021
In clinical practice, what is the effectiveness of different treatment pathways for opioid use disorder?
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