Publications by authors named "S A Benjamin"
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- - The HEALing Communities Study (HCS) aimed to reduce opioid overdose deaths in 67 affected communities by implementing health campaigns focused on opioid use disorder (OUD), overdose prevention, and stigma reduction, developed with community input.
- - Surveys conducted via Facebook/Instagram indicated that participants in HCS communities experienced reduced stigma related to OUD and improved beliefs about the efficacy of naloxone, though recognition of campaign messages was not significantly different from control communities.
- - The study suggests a connection between recognizing campaign messages and achieving positive outcomes, but it also raises concerns about the effectiveness of traditional evaluation methods for social media health campaigns.
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- - The study analyzed trends in gabapentin use among infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) from 2005 to 2020, finding that only 85 infants (less than 0.01%) received the drug despite a significant increase of 1,055% in usage over that time.
- - Gabapentin-exposed infants had a lower median birth weight (2,160 g) compared to those who did not receive it (2,498 g), and many were premature or had chronic health issues such as lung disease and drug withdrawal syndrome.
- - The research highlighted concerns about the safety and effectiveness of gabapentin in infants, emphasizing the need for more studies to understand its implications better. *
Extraction of uranium from water is an essential step in leach (ISL) mining and environmental decontamination. This is often done by precipitating uranium in solution as the uranyl peroxide studtite, [(UO)(O)(HO)](HO), by adding hydrogen peroxide, which is energy-intensive to produce and hazardous to transport. Here, we present a method for synthesizing studtite, by generating reactive oxygen species in solution using a nonthermal plasma.
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