Neurology
Clinical
High prevalence of Fall Risk–Increasing Drugs in older adults after falls
Are we reducing use of Fall Risk–Increasing Drugs (FRIDs) after a fall, and if so, does it alone reduce fall risk?
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‘Deeper dive’ into opioid overdose deaths during COVID pandemic
Results also showed that, compared to 2019, significantly more men died from overdoses in 2020 in Colorado and Indiana.
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EDs saw more benzodiazepine overdoses, but fewer patients overall, in 2020
Fentanyl became increasingly involved in benzodiazepine overdose deaths through the first half of the year.
Clinical
Efficacy of gabapentin for treatment of alcohol use disorders
Can gabapentin be used in the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD) to reduce heavy drinking and maintain abstinence?
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New tool predicts pain relief after gallbladder surgery
“Until now, we did not know which patient with which symptoms would benefit most from this operation.”
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Urologic surgery tied to persistent opioid usage, particularly with tramadol
“For me, the take-home message is that tramadol should not necessarily be considered less habit forming than other opioids, although further...
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Opioid prescribing laws having an impact
The number of days an opioid was prescribed for each Medicare beneficiary decreased by 11.6 days in 2018 in states that imposed duration limits....
Clinical
Treatment of opioid use disorder with buprenorphine and methadone effective but underutilized
In clinical practice, what is the effectiveness of different treatment pathways for opioid use disorder?
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Legalization of cannabis tied to drop in opioid-related ED visits
Nearly half of the U.S. population lives in a state that allows recreational cannabis use.
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Record number of U.S. drug overdoses in 2020
The spikes are largely attributed to the rise in the use of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.