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Opioid use was associated with an increased risk for serious falls among all age groups, especially during the first 28 days after initiation, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.Previous research has reported that unintentional falls are currently the leading cause of injury and injury-related deaths among older adults in the United States, while falls are also a leading
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A lack of awareness and infrastructure gaps are spurring buprenorphine dependency in India’s north western state, writes Charu Bahri Balkar Singh, a 35 year old farmer in Jalandhar, Punjab, takes his buprenorphine-naloxone tablet every day at 8 am. Taken sublingually, the prescription pill delivers 2 mg of synthetic opium, ensuring that Singh—whose name has been changed to protect his privacy—doesn’t feel like injecting himself with heroin, the opioid he was addicted to for more than four years. Singh hasn’t taken heroin for five years. He gets his buprenorphine free from the nearest state run outpatient opioid assisted treatment clinic. Punjab has 529 such clinics, as well as 36 addiction treatment centres and 19 rehab centres, to tackle opioid abuse. In 2022, 21% of the 681 deaths in India1 from drug overdose happened in Punjab. The north western state also has some of the highest rates of opioid use and dependency in India. Whereas the national average is 2.06%, in Punjab 9.69% of t
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A lack of awareness and infrastructure gaps are spurring buprenorphine dependency in India’s north western state, writes Charu Bahri Balkar Singh, a 35 year old farmer in Jalandhar, Punjab, takes his buprenorphine-naloxone tablet every day at 8 am. Taken sublingually, the prescription pill delivers 2 mg of synthetic opium, ensuring that Singh—whose name has been changed to protect his privacy—doesn’t feel like injecting himself with heroin, the opioid he was addicted to for more than four years. Singh hasn’t taken heroin for five years. He gets his buprenorphine free from the nearest state run outpatient opioid assisted treatment clinic. Punjab has 529 such clinics, as well as 36 addiction treatment centres and 19 rehab centres, to tackle opioid abuse. In 2022, 21% of the 681 deaths in India1 from drug overdose happened in Punjab. The north western state also has some of the highest rates of opioid use and dependency in India. Whereas the national average is 2.06%, in Punjab 9.69% of t
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Mashup Score: 1Social determinants may help predict rates of opioid prescriptions, opioid-related death - 2 month(s) ago
Social determinants of health may predict rates of opioid prescriptions per beneficiary and opioid-related death, according to recently published results. Researchers utilized data from the Medicare Part D database to determine the mean number of opioid prescriptions per beneficiary [OPB] in 1,969 different counties in the United States. They also performed multivariable linear regression to
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No link between prenatal exposure and risk for autoimmune conditions, however
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Mashup Score: 0Groups Blast FDA's Opioid Abuse Surveillance Proposal - 3 month(s) ago
RADARS system’s ties to Purdue Pharma undermine the reliability of its data, they say
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Office of National Drug Control Policy is up for funding reauthorization
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Mashup Score: 6Concerns Over Nalmefene Nasal Spray for Opioid Overdose - 3 month(s) ago
Experts urge rigorous research due to safety concerns and uncertainties and prefer naloxone as the preferred first-line agent.
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Mashup Score: 6Receipt of opioid use disorder treatments prior to fatal overdoses and comparison to no treatment in Connecticut, 2016–17 - 3 month(s) ago
To determine the relative risk of death following exposure to treatments for OUD compared to no treatment.In this retrospective cohort study we compil…
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A recently published study finds that allowing more patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) to take doses of methadone at home during the COVID-19 pandemic—instead of requiring them to travel daily to receive treatment in person—benefited both patients and health care providers and did not lead to increased overdose deaths. The research was published in medRxiv, an online archive and distribution server for health science manuscripts that have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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