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New study examines addiction medicine treatment
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Washington [US], February 5 (ANI): An assessment published this week in the journal The Lancet HIV provides new insight about an initiative to integrate treatment of opioid use disorder along with HIV in Vietnam.
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Model predicts likelihood of persistent high-dose opioid use after
Updated : 3 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], February 3 (ANI): A new study published in Arthritis Care & Research has identified 10 readily available clinical factors that may predict which patients will persistently use high doses of opioids in the year following knee replacement surgery.
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Risk of developing pancreatic cancer increases due to Opioid use
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Washington [US], January 9 (ANI): A new study has revealed that opioid use may be a risk factor contributing to the increasing incidences of pancreatic cancer.
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Opioid use might increase risk of developing pancreatic cancer
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Washington [US], January 7 (ANI): Researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found that opioid use might increase a person's risk of developing pancreatic cancer.
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Cannabis may encourage use of non-medical opioid, suggests study
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], October 11 (ANI): A recent study examined the direction and strength of the association between cannabis and opioids among adults who used non-medical opioids in the United States.
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Cannabis use appears to encourage, not replace, non-medical opioid
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], October 8 (ANI): Contrary to some claims, people in the U.S may not be substituting cannabis for opioids, according to new research at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
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AI predicts patients at highest risk for severe pain, increased op
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], October 5 (ANI): Artificial intelligence (AI) used in machine learning models can predict which patients are at highest risk for severe pain after surgery, and help determine who would most benefit from personalised pain management plans that use non-opioid alternatives, sug
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Study looks at opioid use and driving outcomes among older adults
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Colorado [USA], July 12 (ANI): A new study from faculty at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus looks at the relationship between opioid use (medicines used for pain relief, including anesthesia) and driving among older adults.
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New study looks at opioid use, driving outcomes among older adults
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Colorado [USA], July 7 (ANI): A new study looks at the relationship between opioid (medicines used for pain relief, including anaesthesia) use and driving among older adults.
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Treatment for opioid use disorder is rare in hospitals, study find
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 10 (ANI): Despite the national opioid-related overdose epidemic that continues to claim tens of thousands of lives annually, a recent study shows that patients who received a medication to treat opioid use disorder while they were in the hospital were subsequently l
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Study finds treatment for opioid use disorder is rare in hospitals
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 8 (ANI): A new nationwide study shows that a scant proportion of hospitalised patients with opioid use disorder receive proven life-saving medications both during and after they are discharged.
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Illicit opioid users at higher mortality risk due to various cause
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 26 (ANI): People hooked on to illicit opioids are not only at the risk of dying from a drug overdose but also face increased chances of death from communicable and non-communicable diseases, injuries and suicide.
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