Importance Mind-body therapies (MBTs) are emerging as potential tools for addressing the
opioid crisis. Knowing whether mind-body therapies may benefit patients treated with …

Continued increases in overdose deaths and recent declines in life expectancy call for need
to adopt comprehensive public health approaches to the United States opioid crisis and to …

Importance Although clinical trials demonstrate the superior effectiveness of medication for
opioid use disorder (MOUD) compared with nonpharmacologic treatment, national data on …

Importance Treatment with methadone or buprenorphine is the current standard of care for
opioid use disorder. Given the paucity of research identifying which patients will respond …

Objective To investigate the effect of therapeutic suggestions played to patients through
earphones during surgery on postoperative pain and opioid use. Design Blinded …

About 50 million of the US adult population suffer from chronic pain. It is a complex disease
in its own right for which currently available analgesics have been deemed woefully …

Use of illicit opioids and misuse of prescription opioids are the main causes of drug-related
deaths across the world, and the continuing rise in opioid-related mortality, especially …

Objectives Point-of-care drug checking services, wherein individuals can check the content
and purity of their drugs, have emerged as a public health intervention to address the …

The objective of this study was to compare the effect of adjunctive virtual reality vs. standard
analgesic pain medications during burn wound cleaning/debridement. Participants were …

Opioid use disorder, a major source of morbidity and mortality globally, is regularly linked to
opioids given around the time of surgery. Perioperative period, however, is markedly …