ALLMedicine™ Opioid Abuse Center

Jun 26th, 2022 - Chronic pain in the USA has presented with higher prevalence rates among women, older adults, those unemployed, living in poverty, living in rural environments, and adults with public health insurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has heavily played into...

Jun 26th, 2022 - Substance use disorders (SUDs) are a leading cause of death and other ill health effects in the United States and other countries in the world. Several approaches ranging from detoxification, behavioral therapy, and the use of antagonists or drugs...

Jun 24th, 2022 - The opioid abuse epidemic has focused attention on efforts to decrease opioid prescribing. Although education and feedback interventions are potential levers to affect opioid prescribing, their incremental contribution against a background of decl...

Jun 16th, 2022 - Nearly 200 million opioid prescriptions are dispensed per year in the United States. Opioid prescriptions given by medical providers are a major contributor to the opioid abuse epidemic. Nearly 40% of opioid overdose-related deaths occur due to pr...

Jun 13th, 2022 - Over 19 million adults suffer with chronic pain, which frequently limits life or work activities. Many of these patients are chronic prescription opioid consumers and may be at risk for opioid use disorder. Genetic variability of genes related to ...

Feb 23rd, 2017 - Opioid use, abuse, and adverse consequences, including death, have escalated at an alarming rate since the 1990s. In an attempt to control opioid abuse, numerous regulations and guidelines for responsible opioid prescribing have been developed by ...

Jul 20th, 2012 - Part 2 of the guidelines on responsible opioid prescribing provides the following recommendations for initiating and maintaining chronic opioid therapy of 90 days or longer. 1. A) Comprehensive assessment and documentation is recommended before in...

Feb 4th, 2009 - Use of chronic opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain has increased substantially. The American Pain Society and the American Academy of Pain Medicine commissioned a systematic review of the evidence on chronic opioid therapy for chronic noncan...

Jun 16th, 2022 - Nearly 200 million opioid prescriptions are dispensed per year in the United States. Opioid prescriptions given by medical providers are a major contributor to the opioid abuse epidemic. Nearly 40% of opioid overdose-related deaths occur due to pr...

Jun 13th, 2022 - Over 19 million adults suffer with chronic pain, which frequently limits life or work activities. Many of these patients are chronic prescription opioid consumers and may be at risk for opioid use disorder. Genetic variability of genes related to ...

Jun 10th, 2022 - After seeking Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval, a randomized clinical trial study will be conducted with a diagnosis of Lumbar stenosis between levels of L1-S1 who underwent operative posterior spinal fusion and instrumentation (PSF) and ...

May 24th, 2022 - Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is common. The point prevalence of low back pain in the US is about 25%, and the majority of Americans will have at least one episode of low back pain in their lifetimes. Approximately 50% of all US Veterans have chron...

Apr 27th, 2022 - Opioid abuse and misuse remain a public health crisis in the United States, notably in patients with chronic pain from degenerative spine disease. Perioperative pain management for patients undergoing spinal surgery remains largely reliant on opio...

May 31st, 2022 - How critical a social challenge is substance/opioid abuse to the US, in physicians' opinion? How much importance do they give to gun control and climate change? Do they see domestic violence as a major issue confronting US society? The following i...

Apr 12th, 2022 - The study covered in this summary was published in papers.ssrn.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer-reviewed. Key Takeaways Patients with a history of long-term opioid use for chronic pain have an elevated risk for cancer, according to this...

Nov 18th, 2021 - To the Editor: A 56-year-old man with a history of opioid abuse and splenectomy decades prior due to a motor vehicle accident was brought to an outside emergency department with confusion, slurred speech, and difficulty breathing. Over the next fe.

Nov 9th, 2021 - OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a $465 million opioid ruling against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, finding that a lower court wrongly interpreted the state's public nuisance law in the first case of its kind in...

Oct 4th, 2021 - CLEVELAND (AP) — Opening statements are scheduled for Monday afternoon in Cleveland in a federal court trial to determine whether retail pharmacy chains created a public nuisance in how they dispensed addictive painkillers in two Ohio counties whe...