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Associations Between Electronic Vapor Product Use and Prescription Opioid Misuse Among High School Students in the United States; A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Analysis.

Killian M Pache, Lionel Kameni, Cornelius B Groenewald, Stephen Houghton

Study objective: Electronic vapor product (EVP) use remains prevalent among adolescents in the United States. EVP use may be associated with high-risk substance use behaviors. This study investigates the association between current EVP use and current opioid misuse in high school students. Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) (n = 7471). We first examined the pre…

Children Europe PMC

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Research Article 2022CC BYFree full text

National polydrug use patterns among people who misuse prescription opioids and people who use heroin. Results from the National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health

Georgiy V. Bobashev, Lauren K. Warren

Background:Polysubstance use among people who misuse opioids (PWMO) is highly prevalent, but understudied. We defined, estimated, and analyzed national polysubstance use patterns among PWMO using National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health data (2017–2019).Methods:We obtained estimates of past-month patterns of polydrug use using cluster analysis and latent class/profile analysis. We considered misuse of pres…

Drug and alcohol dependence PubMed Central Open Access

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Review Article 2021CC BYFree full text

The Role of Mu-Opioids for Reward and Threat Processing in Humans: Bridging the Gap from Preclinical to Clinical Opioid Drug Studies.

Isabell M Meier, Marie Eikemo, Siri Leknes

Purpose of review Opioid receptors are widely expressed in the human brain. A number of features commonly associated with drug use disorder, such as difficulties in emotional learning, emotion regulation and anhedonia, have been linked to endogenous opioid signalling. Whereas chronic substance use and misuse are thought to alter the function of the mu-opioid system, the specific mechanisms are not well understood.…

Current Addiction Reports Europe PMC

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A comprehensive multivariate model of biopsychosocial factors associated with opioid misuse and use disorder in a 2017-2018 United States national survey.

Francisco A. Montiel Ishino, Philip R. McNab, Tamika Gilreath, Bonita Salmeron, Faustine Williams

BACKGROUND: Few studies have comprehensively and contextually examined the relationship of variables associated with opioid use. Our purpose was to fill a critical gap in comprehensive risk models of opioid misuse and use disorder in the United States by identifying the most salient predictors. METHODS: A multivariate logistic regression was used on the 2017 and 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which i…

BMC Public Health PubMed Central Open Access

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Associations Between Electronic Vapor Product Use and Prescription Opioid Misuse Among High School Students in the United States; A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Analysis.

National polydrug use patterns among people who misuse prescription opioids and people who use heroin. Results from the National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health

The Role of Mu-Opioids for Reward and Threat Processing in Humans: Bridging the Gap from Preclinical to Clinical Opioid Drug Studies.

A comprehensive multivariate model of biopsychosocial factors associated with opioid misuse and use disorder in a 2017-2018 United States national survey.