Reducing Opioid Misuse After Surgery
The ASA suggests presurgical strategies to avoid postsurgical opioid reliance.
Opioid-Related Disorder
Decrease in All-Cause Mortality With Opioid Antagonist Treatment
Investigators conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the impact of opioid antagonist treatment on mortality.
Slight Decline Seen in Opioid Prescription Rates
Investigators assessed the impact of physician clinical knowledge on opioid prescribing habits following the shift in guideline recommendations away from opioid prescribing.
Depot Buprenorphine Improves Outcomes in Opioid Dependence
Participants with opioid dependence receiving subcutaneously administered depot buprenorphine have improved treatment satisfaction compared with those receiving sublingual buprenorphine.
Pharmacological Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Also Reduces Risk for Alcohol-Related Hospitalization
Persons with both opioid use disorder (OUD) and alcohol use disorder have been understudied. The researchers in this study investigated whether OUD medications are associated with decreased risk in alcohol-related morbidity.
Opioid Abuse Higher Among Teens Who Use Alcohol, Tobacco
The study authors investigated the prevalence and correlates of medical use and misuse of psychoactive prescription medications in youth and young adults in the United States.
Text Message System Useful for Monitoring Postoperative Opioid Use
System deployed in 2,444 patients during 16-month period showed that 61 percent of opioid tablets remained unused
One in 10 Continue Opioid Use Two Years After ICU Admission
Mean opioid consumption is increased 24 months after an episode of critical care.
Expert Perspective: The Opioid Crisis and COVID-19
To learn more about the overlapping crises of the opioid epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic, Psychiatry Advisor interviewed pain specialist Paul J. Christo, MD, MBA, the Director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
FDA Strengthens REMS for Transmucosal Immediate-Release Fentanyl Products
While the use of TIRF medications has declined in recent years, data have suggested that prescribing of these drugs to patients who are not opioid tolerant still remains.
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