OPIOIDS
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Opioid abuse rates have reached epidemic proportions, doubling since the 1990s, and—despite the documented success of medication-assisted therapies in treating opioid addiction—less than half of teens with opioid abuse disorders receive such treatment. Why is it being recommended?
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PUZZLER
The mother of a 4-year-old boy, whose family recently emigrated from Haiti, brings him to the pediatric mobile clinic for evaluation of a rash that had begun 11 days earlier as an eruption of vesicular, pruritic papules on the bilateral lower extremities and had spread to the buttocks and medial thighs with sparing of the face. The skin eruption was followed by desquamation of the skin on his palms and soles. What's the diagnosis? |
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CONTEMPORARY PEDIATRICS VIDEO
Can heroin use start with nonmedical opioid use?
For Contemporary Pediatrics, Dr Bobby Lazzara explains key findings from a study published in Pediatrics. The study looked at whether children and adolescents who engage in nonmedical use of opioid medications are increasing their future risk of heroin use.
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