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Prescription opioid dispensing rates in the 12-months post-discharge after acute spinal cord injury: An observational study.
J Spinal Cord Med
January 2025
The Hopkins Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Objectives: To determine rates of opioid and concomitant antidepressant, anticonvulsant and benzodiazepine dispensing in the post-discharge period, after acute spinal cord injury (SCI).
Design: Single-center prospective cohort study with 12-month linked pharmaceutical data.
Setting: Community pharmaceutical dispensing.
Nonabstinence among US Adults in Recovery from an Alcohol or Other Drug Problem.
J Addict Med
November 2024
From the Center for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking, and Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (EP, RJE-P, TSS, CWE, VVM, SEM); Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (RJE-P, CWE, SEM); Department of Psychology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX (TSS); Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (VVM); and Lighthouse Institute at Chestnut Health Systems, Eugene, OR (TKD).
Objectives: Most US treatment and recovery services are abstinence-based. However, many people in recovery from an alcohol or other drug (AOD) use problem do not abstain completely. This study estimated the prevalence of and characteristics associated with nonabstinence among US adults in recovery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInterrogating green social prescribing in South Wales; A multi-stakeholder qualitative exploration.
PLoS One
January 2025
Swansea Community Farm, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.
Background: As an umbrella term, social prescribing offers varied routes into society which promise to support, enhance, and empower individual citizens to take control of their own health and wellbeing. Globally healthcare systems are struggling to cope with the increasing demands of an ageing population and the NHS (UK) is no exception. Social prescribing is heralded as a means to relieve the burden on primary care and provide support for the 20% of patients whose needs are non-medical.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe public health risks of counterfeit pills.
Lancet Public Health
January 2025
Department of Family Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Synthetic illicit drugs, such as nitazenes and fentanyls, are becoming commonplace in countries around the world, including in Europe, Australia, and Latin America, which raises concern for overdose crises like those seen in North America. An important dimension of the risk represented by synthetic drugs is the fact that they are increasingly packaged in counterfeit pill form. These pills-often indistinguishable from authentic pharmaceuticals-have substantially widened the scope of populations susceptible to synthetic drug overdose in North America (eg, among adolescents experimenting with pills or tourists from the USA seeking psychoactive medications from pharmacies in Mexico).
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