Oxycodone in the opioid epidemic: high 'liking','wanting', and abuse liability

C Kibaly, JA Alderete, SH Liu, HS Nasef… - Cellular and molecular …, 2021 - Springer
It is estimated that nearly a third of people who abuse drugs started with prescription opioid
medicines. Approximately, 11.5 million Americans used prescription drugs recreationally in …

An overview of recent developments in the management of burn injuries

E Radzikowska-Büchner, I Łopuszyńska… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 11 million people suffer from
burns every year, and 180,000 die from them. A burn is a condition in which heat, chemical …

Oral oxycodone self‐administration leads to features of opioid misuse in male and female mice

RA Slivicki, T Earnest, YH Chang, R Pareta… - Addiction …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Use of prescription opioids, particularly oxycodone, is an initiating factor driving the current
opioid epidemic. There are several challenges with modelling oxycodone abuse. First …

Endogenous opioids at the intersection of opioid addiction, pain, and depression: the search for a precision medicine approach

MA Emery, H Akil - Annual review of neuroscience, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Opioid addiction and overdose are at record levels in the United States. This is driven, in
part, by their widespread prescription for the treatment of pain, which also increased …

Oxycodone, an opioid like the others?

N Marie, F Noble - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The over-prescription of opioid analgesics is a growing problem in the field of addiction,
which has reached epidemic-like proportions in North America. Over the past decade …

Opioid addiction: who are your real friends?

S Eitan, MA Emery, MLS Bates, C Horrax - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2017 - Elsevier
Opioid addiction is a chronic and relapsing mental health disorder. However, only some
individuals exposed to opioids, either recreationally or during the course of pain …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic addiction risk score (GARS)™, a predictor of vulnerability to opioid dependence

K Blum, ALC Chen, PK Thanos, M Febo… - Front Biosci (Elite …, 2018 - academia.edu
175 1. ABSTRACT Genetic addiction risk score (GARS) ™, a predictor of vulnerability to opioid
dependence Kenneth Blum1-8,10,18 Page 1 175 1. ABSTRACT The interaction of …

Drug-specific differences in the ability of opioids to manage burn pain

MA Emery, S Eitan - Burns, 2020 - Elsevier
Burn injury pain is a significant public health problem. Burn injury treatment has improved
tremendously in recent decades. However, an unintended consequence is that a larger …

Members of the same pharmacological family are not alike: Different opioids, different consequences, hope for the opioid crisis?

MA Emery, S Eitan - Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Pain management is the specialized medical practice of modulating pain perception and
thus easing the suffering and improving the life quality of individuals suffering from painful …

The roles of chemokine CXCL13 in the development of bone cancer pain and the regulation of morphine analgesia in rats

HL Bu, YZ Xia, PM Liu, HM Guo, C Yuan, XC Fan… - Neuroscience, 2019 - Elsevier
Chemokines are important regulators of immune, inflammatory, and neuronal responses in
peripheral and central pain pathway. The aim of this study was to investigate whether …