You've been treating Mr. H, a 54-year-old factory worker and tobacco user, for depression that...Miller, Shannon C.Frankowski, DeborahDowden Health Media, Inc.Current Psychiatry
Opioid use disorder affects more than 2 million people in the U.S. and contributes to the public health crisis of opioid addiction and overdoses. While previous studies have focused on how prevalent prescription opioid use is, researchers from Mayo Clinic and the National Center for Complementary ...
Finding an effective strategy to prevent prescription opioid use disorder is urgent. Orexin receptors (OrxR1 and OrxR2) have been implicated in the regulation of motivation, arousal, and stress, making them possible targets for the treatment of substance use disorder. To study the significance of...
OBJECTIVE: Prescription opioid use disorder and overdose have emerged as significant public health challenges in the past 15 years. Little is known about public attitudes toward individuals who have developed a prescription opioid use disorder and whether these attitudes affect support for policy intervent...
Prescription opioid use disorderOpioid useBackground: Chronic pain is common in patients with prescription opioid use disorder (OUD), and pain severity has been shown to predict opioid use for those with chronic pain. However, recent research suggests that focusing on pain status (i.e., the ...
Background and aims Opioid use disorder (OUD) refers to a maladaptive pattern of opioid use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress. OUD causes, and vice versa, misuses and abuse of opioid medications. Clinicians face daily challenges to
Over the past few decades, there has been a rise in the non-medical use of prescription opioids, which has now reached epidemic proportions in the United States. In some cases, this non-medical use progresses to prescription opioid use disorder, heroin use, injection, and inhalation drug use...
Although there is evidence for high comorbidity between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and substance use disorders, particularly alcohol use, more research is needed on the associations between BPD and prescription opioid use because of the increasing national problem of prescription opioid misuse....
Although there is evidence for high comorbidity between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and substance use disorders, particularly alcohol use, more research is needed on the associations between BPD and prescription opioid use because of the increasing national problem of prescription opioid misuse....
Another finding of the study was that less than a quarter of buprenorphine-involved overdose deaths were people receiving treatment for opioid use disorder at the time of their death, and even fewer — about 20% — were specifically taking medications to help with the problem. ...