Reduction in mortality risk with opioid agonist therapy: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

A Bahji, B Cheng, S Gray… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Opioid agonist therapies are effective medications that can greatly improve the
quality of life of individuals with opioid use disorder. However, there is significant uncertainty …

Incidence and correlates of opioid-related psychiatric emergency care: A retrospective, multiyear cohort study.

A Bahji - Journal of Opioid Management, 2020 - europepmc.org
BACKGROUND: In 2018, nearly 4,000 Canadian lives were claimed by the opioid epidemic.
To date, only a few studies have reviewed shifts in emergency department (ED) utilization for …

Reversal Agents in Sedation and Anesthesia Practice for Dentistry

M Wong - Anesthesia Progress, 2022 - meridian.allenpress.com
Reversal agents are defined as any drug used to counteract the pharmacologic effects of
another drug. Several pharmacologic antagonists serve as essential drugs in the …

Updating our language around substance use disorders

E Xie, S Green, N Puri, H Sheikh - CMAJ, 2017 - Can Med Assoc
We thank Drs. Kumar and Rosenberg for enhancing care providers' knowledge of treatments
for opioid abuse and its consequences. 1 However, we need to be more precise in how we …

Implementation of an Opioid Overdose Prevention Program in a Health Department

R McInerney - 2018 - thescholarship.ecu.edu
Opioid overdose is pandemic in the United States. North Carolinians are not exempt from
hazardous health behavior. Opioid overdose prevention programs are one method of …