Many adolescents access prescription opioids from friends or relatives for nonmedical reasons. Concern is heightened if adolescent nonmedical prescription opioid use is associated with an increased risk of subsequently initiating heroin, a drug with substantial addiction potential that poses extensive medical, psychological,…
Opioids are commonly prescribed to relieve pain after tooth extraction. Understanding the differences in client-reported outcomes between opioid users and non-users could encourage the adoption of more conservative and appropriate prescribing practices in oral health medicine.
In a quality improvement study of 329…
Opioid addiction and overdose remain a serious health concern. Naloxone can reverse opioid overdose but requires timely intervention. Toward this goal, a University of Washington research team converted a smartphone to detect changes in respiration that precede opioid overdose. Using sonar, the…