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Sleep
November 2024
John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Medicine Service, Detroit, MI, USA.
J Opioid Manag
September 2022
Medical Director, Center for Innovation & Discovery in Addictions (CIDA), Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Jackson, Mississippi. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8845-0182.
Aside from respiratory suppression in overdose, full opioid agonist agents are known to cause sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). The increasing rates of opioid overdose in the United States have led to increasing use of medication-assisted treatments for opioid use disorders. Dose-dependent increase in SDB has been documented with methadone.
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October 2022
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; and.
Opioid use continues to rise globally. So too do the associated adverse consequences. Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a chronic and relapsing brain disease characterized by loss of control over opioid use and impairments in cognitive function, mood, pain perception, and autonomic activity.
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March 2022
Institute of Medical Sciences, Medical College, University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland.
Background: The adverse effects of short-term opioid analgesics are well known and acknowledged; however, the spectrum of the sequelae of long-term use seems less clear. Some effects may remain undetected but still have the potential to cause harm and reduce patients' quality of life.
Objective: To review the literature on the adverse effects of long-term opioid therapy.
J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther
December 2021
Department of Anesthesiology (JJT, MMM), University of Colorado School of Medicine, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO.
Objective: Pediatric patients with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and obesity are at risk for opioid-induced respiratory depression. Although monitoring in the inpatient setting allows for early recognition of opioid-related adverse events, there is far less vigilance after ambulatory surgery as patients are discharged home. Guidelines for proper opioid dosing in these pediatric subsets have not been established.
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