How Should the United States Respond to the Opioid Addiction and Overdose Epidemic?

2019 ◽  
pp. 259-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Humphreys ◽  
Harold A. Pollack
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Opioid Addiction

Challenges and Opportunities for the Use of Medications to Treat Opioid Addiction in the United States and Other Nations of the World

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 255-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark W. Parrino ◽  
Angelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani ◽  
Paul N. Samuels ◽  
Icro Maremmani
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Opioid Addiction ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Opioids and Teenagers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yngvild Olsen ◽  
Joshua M. Sharfstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Opioid Addiction ◽  
Prescription Medications ◽  
Opioid Epidemic ◽  
Opioid Prescription

How has the opioid epidemic in the United States affected teenagers? From 1991 to 2012, the misuse of opioid prescription medications among teenagers more than doubled.1 So did the rate of opioid addiction,2 the rate of hospitalizations for overdose,3...

The High Costs of Being Poor in the Land of the Dream

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Graham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Opioid Addiction ◽  
Discount Rates ◽  
Poor Whites ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Moment

This chapter focuses on what it means to be poor in the United States and how poverty affects expectations about the future. It explores patterns in optimism across different racial and socioeconomic cohorts. For example, it identifies surprising differences, with poor blacks and Hispanics being much more optimistic about the future than poor whites. These differential levels of optimism can result in very different discount rates across individuals, with those with less faith in the future far more likely to live in the moment, focused on the day to day, and less likely to make investments in their own and their children's future. The most vivid example of these differential levels of optimism—and the extreme desperation among some cohorts—is the increase in mortality rates due to preventable causes, such as suicide and opioid addiction. The chapter also examines the extent to which these patterns are mediated by stress and inequality.

scholarly journals The NFL Should Stop Trying to Weed Out Marijuana

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-36
Author(s):  
Stephanie Assi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Drug Testing ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Medical Marijuana ◽  
Marijuana Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Opioid Addiction ◽  
Opioid Epidemic ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
Medical Marijuana Use

Is the NFL’s drug-testing policy on medical marijuana out of date? In recent years, the United States has seen a rise in opioid addiction and opioid related deaths. The NFL is not immune from the opioid epidemic, as many current and retired players have addressed the troubled paradigm of needing relief from pain caused by years of playing in the NFL, but the increased risks of opioid use to treat said pain. This article addresses the current NFL policy regarding medical marijuana use and how changing this policy could ultimately benefit the health and safety of the NFL players.

scholarly journals Methadone Matters: What the United States Can Learn from the Global Effort to Treat Opioid Addiction

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1039-1042 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. Calcaterra ◽  
P. Bach ◽  
A. Chadi ◽  
N. Chadi ◽  
S. D. Kimmel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Opioid Addiction

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

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