Opioid use and disposal at 2 weeks post-surgery: Brief communication regarding excess opioids and disposal habits
CONCLUSION: Two-thirds of the patients reported having excess opioids, highlighting the issue of an overabundance of unused prescription opioids in America. Utilization of opioid-free pain management strategies and drug disposal kits should be explored to reduce the number of unused and improperly disposed opioids.PMID:38700391 | DOI:10.5055/jom.0854 (Source: Journal of Opioid Management)
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Henry Kuechly Sarah Kurkowski John Bonamer Brian Newyear Brian Johnson Brian Grawe Source Type: research
Opioid prescribing patterns for distal radius fractures in the ambulatory setting: A 10-year retrospective study
CONCLUSIONS: Prescriptions of both opioid and nonopioid analgesic medications for DRF have been steadily increasing over time in the nonoperative ambulatory setting, with middle-aged adults most likely to receive an opioid prescription. Opioid prescription rates differ significantly between patients utilizing workers' compensation and patients receiving services under charity care, suggesting that socioeconomic factors play a role in prescribing patterns.PMID:38700392 | DOI:10.5055/jom.0862 (Source: Journal of Opioid Management)
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Brian Pettitt-Schieber Robert P Lesko Fei Wang Jinesh Shah Joseph A Ricci Source Type: research
United States marijuana legalization and opioid mortality trends before and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
CONCLUSIONS: During the past decade, marijuana legalization in the US was associated at the jurisdiction level with a greater acceleration in opioid death rate. An even greater increase in opioid mortality occurred in recreational-legalizing jurisdictions with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Marijuana legalization is correlated with worsening of the US opioid epidemic.PMID:38700393 | DOI:10.5055/jom.0829 (Source: Journal of Opioid Management)
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Archie Bleyer Brian Barnes Kenneth Finn Source Type: research
Claims data analysis of provider-to-provider tele-mentoring program impact on opioid prescribing in Missouri
CONCLUSIONS: Pain Management ECHO supports PCPs with needed education and skills to provide specialty care in the management of pain conditions and safe prescribing of opioid medications.PMID:38700394 | DOI:10.5055/jom.0825 (Source: Journal of Opioid Management)
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Olabode B Ogundele Xing Song Praveen Rao Tracy Greever-Rice Suzanne A Boren Karen Edison Douglas Burgess Mirna Becevic Source Type: research
State-level policies and receipt of CDC-informed opioid thresholds among commercially insured new chronic opioid users
CONCLUSION: States with highly robust PDMPs and medical cannabis dispensaries had lower odds of receiving higher opioid thresholds, while cannabis decriminalization correlated with higher odds of receiving high opioid thresholds.PMID:38700395 | DOI:10.5055/jom.0824 (Source: Journal of Opioid Management)
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Martin J Calabrese Fadia T Shaya Francis Palumbo Mary Lynn McPherson Ester Villalonga-Olives Zafar Zafari Ryan Mutter Source Type: research
Conversion ratios: Why is it so challenging to construct opioid conversion tables?
J Opioid Manag. 2024 Mar-Apr;20(2):169-179. doi: 10.5055/jom.0853.ABSTRACTStandardizing opioid management is challenging due to the absence of a ceiling dose, the unknown ideal therapeutic plasma level, and the lack of an clear relationship between dose and therapeutic response. Opioid rotation or conversion, which is switching from one opioid, route of administration, or both, to another, to improve therapeutic response and reduce toxicities, occurs in 20-40 percent of patients treated with opioids. Opioid conversion is often needed when there are adverse effects, toxicities, or inability to tolerate a certain opioid form...
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Mellar P Davis Mary Lynn McPherson Akhila Reddy Amy A Case Source Type: research
Beer taxes associate with lower alcohol and cigarette use; cigarette taxes associate with lower cigarette but higher alcohol use
Conclusion: Higher beer taxes were associated with lower odds of drinking and smoking, but higher cigarette taxes were associated with lower odds of smoking and higher alcohol consumption. These results suggest that alcohol intake may be a determinant of cigarette use rather than cigarette use as a determinant of alcohol intake.PMID:38700943 | DOI:10.1080/00952990.2024.2321872 (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Elizabeth Mostofsky Julie E Buring Kenneth J Mukamal Source Type: research
Beer taxes associate with lower alcohol and cigarette use; cigarette taxes associate with lower cigarette but higher alcohol use
Conclusion: Higher beer taxes were associated with lower odds of drinking and smoking, but higher cigarette taxes were associated with lower odds of smoking and higher alcohol consumption. These results suggest that alcohol intake may be a determinant of cigarette use rather than cigarette use as a determinant of alcohol intake.PMID:38700943 | DOI:10.1080/00952990.2024.2321872 (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Elizabeth Mostofsky Julie E Buring Kenneth J Mukamal Source Type: research
Conversion ratios: Why is it so challenging to construct opioid conversion tables?
J Opioid Manag. 2024 Mar-Apr;20(2):169-179. doi: 10.5055/jom.0853.ABSTRACTStandardizing opioid management is challenging due to the absence of a ceiling dose, the unknown ideal therapeutic plasma level, and the lack of an clear relationship between dose and therapeutic response. Opioid rotation or conversion, which is switching from one opioid, route of administration, or both, to another, to improve therapeutic response and reduce toxicities, occurs in 20-40 percent of patients treated with opioids. Opioid conversion is often needed when there are adverse effects, toxicities, or inability to tolerate a certain opioid form...
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Mellar P Davis Mary Lynn McPherson Akhila Reddy Amy A Case Source Type: research
Claims data analysis of provider-to-provider tele-mentoring program impact on opioid prescribing in Missouri
CONCLUSIONS: Pain Management ECHO supports PCPs with needed education and skills to provide specialty care in the management of pain conditions and safe prescribing of opioid medications.PMID:38700394 | DOI:10.5055/jom.0825 (Source: Journal of Opioid Management)
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Olabode B Ogundele Xing Song Praveen Rao Tracy Greever-Rice Suzanne A Boren Karen Edison Douglas Burgess Mirna Becevic Source Type: research
State-level policies and receipt of CDC-informed opioid thresholds among commercially insured new chronic opioid users
CONCLUSION: States with highly robust PDMPs and medical cannabis dispensaries had lower odds of receiving higher opioid thresholds, while cannabis decriminalization correlated with higher odds of receiving high opioid thresholds.PMID:38700395 | DOI:10.5055/jom.0824 (Source: Journal of Opioid Management)
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Martin J Calabrese Fadia T Shaya Francis Palumbo Mary Lynn McPherson Ester Villalonga-Olives Zafar Zafari Ryan Mutter Source Type: research
Predictors of MOUD referral among persons with involvement in the criminal legal system
CONCLUSIONS: Data highlight the need for greater connection between referral agencies and MOUD treatment providers, considering factors that may influence referral.PMID:38700390 | DOI:10.5055/jom.0831 (Source: Journal of Opioid Management)
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Andrew P Bontemps Sofia Mildrum Chana Elizabeth S Hawes Yoser Al Rawi Christina E Cenczyk Lindsey R Atkins Li Li Karen L Cropsey Source Type: research
Opioid use and disposal at 2 weeks post-surgery: Brief communication regarding excess opioids and disposal habits
CONCLUSION: Two-thirds of the patients reported having excess opioids, highlighting the issue of an overabundance of unused prescription opioids in America. Utilization of opioid-free pain management strategies and drug disposal kits should be explored to reduce the number of unused and improperly disposed opioids.PMID:38700391 | DOI:10.5055/jom.0854 (Source: Journal of Opioid Management)
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Henry Kuechly Sarah Kurkowski John Bonamer Brian Newyear Brian Johnson Brian Grawe Source Type: research
Opioid prescribing patterns for distal radius fractures in the ambulatory setting: A 10-year retrospective study
CONCLUSIONS: Prescriptions of both opioid and nonopioid analgesic medications for DRF have been steadily increasing over time in the nonoperative ambulatory setting, with middle-aged adults most likely to receive an opioid prescription. Opioid prescription rates differ significantly between patients utilizing workers' compensation and patients receiving services under charity care, suggesting that socioeconomic factors play a role in prescribing patterns.PMID:38700392 | DOI:10.5055/jom.0862 (Source: Journal of Opioid Management)
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Brian Pettitt-Schieber Robert P Lesko Fei Wang Jinesh Shah Joseph A Ricci Source Type: research
United States marijuana legalization and opioid mortality trends before and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
CONCLUSIONS: During the past decade, marijuana legalization in the US was associated at the jurisdiction level with a greater acceleration in opioid death rate. An even greater increase in opioid mortality occurred in recreational-legalizing jurisdictions with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Marijuana legalization is correlated with worsening of the US opioid epidemic.PMID:38700393 | DOI:10.5055/jom.0829 (Source: Journal of Opioid Management)
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - May 3, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: Archie Bleyer Brian Barnes Kenneth Finn Source Type: research
