Understanding the Opioid Epidemic的剧情简介· ··· This program traces the causes behind the unprecedented growth in the use of prescription opioids and the devastating impact these drugs are having in virtually every part of America. It captures the story of the opioid crisis through personal...
Interventions to stem overdose benefit from contextual understandings of communities' needs and strengths in addressing the opioid crisis. This project aims to understand multiple stakeholder perspectives on the opioid epidemic in communities disproportionately affected by opioid-involved overdose mortality. ...
A study by the National Library of Medicine revealed that as the dose of opioids gradually decreases, there is a decrease in overdose events. A considerable difference of30-90%is seen if the opioid dose is reduced from 18 to 1.8. The only important actions here are monitoring and support. ...
Understanding Pharmaceutical Drug Addiction: Types, Signs, Treatments Although attention has focused on the opioid crisis, multiple types of drug addiction require attention from the healthcare system. Drug addiction and treatment have become an increasingly serious problem in the United States h...
Drug policy is firmly on the global political agenda. Over the past decade we have seen changes to cannabis policy worldwide, an increase in drug related deaths connected to the opioid crisis, the introduction of safe consumption sites in several European countries, as well as Canada and A...
Another important aspect of my work has been in providing advocacy for persons with chronic pain. With the growing concern regardingopioid abuse, state laws are making it increasingly difficult for individuals to have access to opioid medications. These medications are essential to the overall plan ...
Opioid Use Disorder is an international crisis, affecting many populations. Deep learning models can potentially predict opioid use disorder, but provide little insight to how predictions are derived. Impact scores, a new development in explainable artificial intelligence, measure how individual features ...
Chapter 9 Solving the U.S. Opioid Crisis: A Public Health Challenge 155 Chapter 10 HIV in the United States–What Else Can We Do? 173 Chapter 11 Preventing Gun Violence and Promoting Highway Safety: A Study of Stark Contrasts 195
The researchers suggest that pre-consumption fentanyl-testing strips could be an important tool for managing the currentopioidcrisis. "The risks or danger of fentanyl are exacerbated by a social context in which people are often unaware of its presence, or concentration, in the drugs they consume,...
Approximately 90 Americans die every day fromopioidoverdoses, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, creating what public agencies have referred to as both an epidemic and a crisis. Opioids, which include prescription pain medications such as morphine and oxycodone as well as illegal sub...