BACKGROUND: The opioid crisis in the United States is a complex issue with interconnected factors that lead to opioid misuse and opioid-involved mortality. This study assessed the relative importance of different risk factor domains in predicting fat...
BACKGROUND: The opioid crisis remains a critical public health challenge, with opioid use disorder (OUD) imposing significant societal and health care burdens. Web-based communities, such as the Reddit community r/OpiatesRecovery, provide an anonymou...
British journal of hospital medicine (London, England : 2005)
Jul 4, 2025
The opioid crisis presents a significant burden to patients and healthcare systems. Orthopaedic surgery involves treating patients with significant pain demands, therefore opioid stewardship in this specialty is an important area in targeting the opi...
BACKGROUND: The opioid crisis poses a significant health challenge in the United States, with increasing overdoses and death rates due to opioids mixed with other illicit substances. Various strategies have been developed by federal and local governm...
Journal of substance use and addiction treatment
May 3, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Emergency departments (ED) are potential sites for identifying and treating individuals at high risk for opioid overdose. This study used machine learning (ML)-based models to predict opioid overdose death in the 12 months after an ED v...
In this viewpoint, we explore the use of big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) and discuss important challenges to their ethical, effective, and equitable use within opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment settings. Applying our collective ...
Adults with opioid use disorder (OUD) are at increased risk for opioid-related complications and repeated hospital admissions. Routine screening for patients at risk for an OUD to prevent complications is not standard practice in many hospitals, lead...
Journal of substance use and addiction treatment
Mar 22, 2025
BACKGROUND: Despite effective treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD), relapse and treatment drop-out diminish their efficacy, increasing the risks of adverse outcomes, including death. Predicting important outcomes, including non-prescribed opioid ...
Journal of psychopathology and clinical science
Mar 20, 2025
Novel and automated means of opioid use and relapse risk detection are needed. Unstructured electronic medical record data, including written progress notes, can be mined for clinically relevant information, including the presence of substance use an...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Feb 10, 2025
Accurate detection and prevalence estimation of behavioral health conditions, such as opioid use disorder (OUD), are crucial for identifying at-risk individuals, determining treatment needs, monitoring prevention and intervention efforts, and recruit...
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