Therapeutic claims about many psychedelic drugs have not been evaluated in any studies
of even modest rigor. The science of psychedelic drugs is strengthening however, making it …

Buprenorphine possesses many unique attributes that make it a practical agent for adults
and adolescents with opioid use disorder (OUD) and/or acute or chronic pain. Sublingual …

Background Opioid analgesics are commonly used for acute low back pain and neck pain,
but supporting efficacy data are scarce. We aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of a …

Recent reports highlighted racial and ethnic differences in US drug overdose deaths from
1999 to 2020. 1, 2 Overdose deaths increased 37.2% from February 2020 to August 2021 …

Social isolation during opioid withdrawal is a major contributor to the current opioid
addiction crisis. We find that sociability deficits during protracted opioid withdrawal in mice …

Opioid overdose deaths remain a major public health crisis. We used a system dynamics
simulation model of the US opioid-using population age 12 and older to explore the impacts …

PURPOSE To characterize racial and ethnic disparities and trends in opioid access and
urine drug screening (UDS) among patients dying of cancer, and to explore potential …

We examine trends in drug overdose deaths by race, gender, and geography in the United
States during the period 2013–2020. Race and gender specific crude rates were extracted …

With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice across the field it
surveys, The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness is widely acclaimed by instructors as …

Introduction The US opioid crisis has been exacerbated by COVID-19 and the spread of
synthetic opioids (eg, fentanyl). Methods We model the effectiveness of reduced prescribing …