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Background: Healthcare professionals' knowledge of safe use of opioids for chronic pain management is critical in preventing opioid abuse and overdose. Undergraduate curricula of health professional schools, including undergraduate nursing programs, need to improve and adopt a comprehensive educational plan regarding this issue.
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idPAD: Paper Analytical Device for Presumptive Identification of Illicit Drugs.
J Forensic Sci
July 2020
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, 251 Stepan Hall of Chemistry, Notre Dame, IN, 46556.
As drug overdose deaths across the United States continue to rise, there is increasing interest in field testing of illicit substances. This work discusses a paper-based analytical device (idPAD) that can run a library of 12 colorimetric tests at the same time, each detecting different chemical functional groups and materials found in illicit drugs, distractor substances, and cutting agents. The idPAD requires no electricity, costs less than $2 USD, and requires minimal training to operate.
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Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol
August 2018
Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Forensic Sciences, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
An elderly man with decreased kidney function was admitted to hospital with gastrointestinal bleeding. After remaining stable for 2 days in hospital, he became haemodynamically unstable and an adverse effect of dabigatran was suspected, but efforts to treat the patient failed and the following morning he passed away. In conjunction with the autopsy, blood samples from his hospital stay were analysed for dabigatran, revealing the highest concentration (6400 ng/mL) apparently reported to date.
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