The opioid epidemic in the United States has manifested differently across geographic regions and populations, with recent increases among racial/ethnic minorities and in the Western region of the U.S. This study provides an overview of the opioid overdose epidemic among Latinos in California and ...
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Although, this is an acceptable response rate of questionnaires in social sciences43, it may have affected our results. However, population characteristics of survey participants were similar to the total Dutch population from 2014 to 2017 (see the Supplementary Table S1 online), as well as ...
The Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was a traumatic event that had extreme drawbacks that affected the general population worldwide [7, 8]. Being under severe stress due to an unpredictable disease, disruption in living conditions, healthcare services and communications, and fear ...
The suffocation false alarm may potentially be mediated by episodic dysfunction in regulation of endogenous opioid function [91]. A number of studies have assessed the interaction of smoking and PTSD. A population-based follow-up investigation of individuals affected by a fireworks factory explosion ...
Conclusions and Relevance In this sample of urban, high-risk, low-income mother-child pairs, in utero opioid exposure was significantly associated with adverse short-term and long-term outcomes across developmental stages, including higher rates of physical and neurodevelopmental disorders in affected ch...
A number of studies have assessed the interaction of smoking and PTSD. A population-based follow-up investigation of individuals affected by a fireworks factory explosion in The Netherlands found that those who were smokers at time of traumatic incident had an increased chance of experiencing severe...
It is possible that our SIR estimates were overestimated, due to the fact that those who were included were more likely to be male and younger, groups disproportionately affected by this crisis (Federal, provincial, and territorial Special Advisory Committee on the Epidemic of Opioid Overdoses, ...
COVID-19 has disproportionately affected vulnerable populations across the U.S. Street-based sex workers are one vulnerable population whose health and imp
New York State data provided context for local opioiduse, while GIS maps identified specific areas of the New York City boroughs that were most affected by the opioid epidemic. The importance of local GIS maps is that the information is available in real-time, and thus interventions can be ...