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...
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...
The use of machine learning to predict postoperative pain and opioid use has likely been catalyzed by the availability of complex patient-level data, computational and statistical advancements, the prevalence and impact of chronic postsurgical pain, ...
The opioid crisis has disproportionately affected U.S. veterans, leading the Veterans Health Administration to implement opioid prescribing guidelines. Veterans who receive care from both VA and non-VA providers-known as dual-system users-have an inc...
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a new frontier for aiding in the management of both acute and chronic pain, which may potentially transform opioid prescribing practices and addiction prevention strategies. In this review paper,...
BACKGROUND: Opioid addiction is a worldwide public health crisis. In the United States, for example, opioids cause more drug overdose deaths than any other substance. However, opioid addiction treatments have limited efficacy, meaning that additional...
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