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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 …

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 …

abstract Background Alarms have been raised that COVID-19 may disproportionately affect
certain populations with substance use disorders, particularly Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) …

Importance During the COVID-19 pandemic, US emergency department (ED) visits for
psychiatric disorders (PDs) and drug overdoses increased. Psychiatric disorders and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Objective: Evaluate the association of evidence-based opioid prescribing guidelines with
new persistent opioid use after surgery. Summary Background Data: Patients exposed to …

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 …