📊 Study Update #PANDOS Pain and Opioids After Surgery
🔹Nearly 9,000 patients recruited so far
🔹Over 3,500 participants in the UK
🔹Almost 190 centres involved
🔹14 countries participating across Europe
#Epidemiology #PainResearch #OpioidResearch #Aberdeen

NACJD data in the spotlight: A new Health Economics study finds that opioid prescription monitoring laws may also reduce domestic violence. Researchers used NIBRS data to track the impact. myumi.ch/79JGQ #CriminalJusticeData #DomesticViolence #OpioidResearch

PANDOS

Funded by @esaic.bsky.social #PANDOS is helping improve understanding of post-surgical opioid use in real-world settings.

Your contributions are shaping safer, more effective care 💙

🔗 w3.abdn.ac.uk/hsru/pandos/...

@nhsgrampian.bsky.social
#PANDOS #PerioperativeMedicine #OpioidResearch #Surgery

Beyond Opioid Sparing: A Qualitative Study with Family... : Canadian Journal of Addiction ers and facilitators to implementing prescribing Portraits with educational webinars on pain management with opioids in primary care. Methods: This study involved qualitative analysis of focus grou...

🌐 This study is a call to action:
Prescriber education on opioid-sparing strategies
must include
a focus on structural inequities
to ensure care is equitable and effective.

#OpioidResearch #MedicalEducation

Read the full study here: ⤵️

journals.lww.com/cja/abstract...

📢 Study participants (Family Docs & NPs who prescribe opioids) reported that education on opioid-sparing strategies is critical but must also address the needs of patients with pain & substance use disorder.

Fulsome education is key to advancing equitable care. #OpioidResearch #MedicalEducation

Book cover titled Pain, the Opioid Epidemic, and Depression.

My spouse recently published this book. Clinicians, researchers, or students interested in the intersection of pain, opioids, and psychology may be interested.
#opioidresearch
#painresearch
#Psychiatry
#mentalhealth

Nanobody Offers Hope in Combating Opioid Side Effects and Overdoses Researchers at the University of Geneva have discovered a novel molecule that could revolutionize the treatment of opioid side effects and overdoses.

Tiny llama-inspired proteins to the rescue? New research shows promise in fighting opioid side effects and overdoses @unige_en #OpioidResearch #MedicalBreakthrough scienceblog.com/548464/nanob...