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    Opioid prescribing mapped: Alabama highest, New York lowest

    October 4, 2021

    The Medicare Part D opioid prescribing rate dropped in all 50 states from 2014 to 2019, but disparities remain.

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    Growing proportion of cardiac arrests in U.S. considered opioid related

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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