This primer presents a synopsis of pain management strategies associated with total joint
arthroplasty. Patients considering total joint arthroplasty often experience moderate to …

Background Opioid receptors are present in the esophagus, and chronic opioid therapy may
be associated with esophageal dysfunction. Given the current opioid epidemic in the United …

Purpose Increased opioid analgesic prescribing (OAP) has been associated with increased
risk of prescription opioid diversion, misuse, and abuse. We studied regional and rural …

Opioids cover a broad class of natural, synthetic and semi‐synthetic drugs that act on opioid
receptors to produce powerful analgesic effects. Rates of opioid use and opioid agonist …

Objectives While opioid addiction, treatment, and recovery are receiving attention, not much
has been done on adaptive interventions to prevent opioid use disorder (OUD). To address …

Background: Overdose fatality rates in rural areas surpass those in urban areas with the
state of West Virginia (WV) reporting the highest drug overdose death rate in 2017. There is …

Methods: The amount of opioid medications, quantified as oral morphine equivalents
(OMEs), provided to opioid-naive adult patients on discharge after orthopaedic surgery was …

The health consequences of the opioid epidemic have led the United States to an inflection
point at which its biomedical research–driven plan should be changed to effectively address …

Rationale An alarming number of neonates born with prenatal exposure to morphine has
resulted from the opioid epidemic; however, the long-term effects of prenatal opioid …

Purpose: The opioid epidemic in the United States is an ongoing public health concern.
Health care institutions use standardized patient satisfaction surveys to assess the patient …