Opioid-Dependency and Sleep

Curbing prescription opioid dependency

Diagnosis and Pharmacologic Management of Opioid Dependency

Hospital Physician October 2007 15 O pioid dependency is a common problem that remains underdiagnosed and undertreated in the United States. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that in 2002 approximately 2.5 million Americans used pain relievers, mostly opioid agonists (eg, oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, methadone), for nonmedical use. Approximately 3.7 million Americans hav...

Comparison of Emotional Regulation in People with Internet Addiction, Food Addiction, Opioid Dependency and Control Group

Objective:Difficulty in emotional regulation is an important component in the pathology of addictive types that comparison and evaluation of them as a common component can be helpful in understanding and treating these disorders. The purpose of this study was to compare emotional regulation in opioid addicts (heroin and opium), people with food addiction, people with internet addiction and cont...

Sleep-disordered breathing and chronic opioid therapy.

OBJECTIVE To assess the relation between medications prescribed for chronic pain and sleep apnea. DESIGN An observational study of chronic pain patients on opioid therapy who received overnight polysomnographies. Generalized linear models determined whether a dose relation exists between methadone, nonmethadone opioids, and benzodiazepines and the indices measuring sleep apnea. SETTING A pr...

Opioid medication and sleep-disordered breathing.

There has been a growing recognition of chronic pain that may be experienced by patients. There has been a movement toward treating these patients aggressively with pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic modalities. Opioids have been a significant component of the treatment of acute pain, with their increasing use in cases of chronic pain, albeit with some controversy. In addition to analgesia, opi...