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Nonmedical Opioid Pain Relievers and All-Cause Mortality: A 27-Year Follow-Up From the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study.

Cottler, Linda B; Hu, Hui; Smallwood, Bryan A; Anthony, James C; Wu, Li-Tzy; Eaton, William W (American journal of public health, 2016-03)

We investigated whether nonmedical opioid pain reliever use is associated with higher mortality in the general US population.We assessed the history of nonmedical opioid pain reliever use among 9985 people interviewed at ...

The Association of Gasoline Prices With Hospital Utilization and Costs for Motorcycle and Nonmotorcycle Motor Vehicle Injuries in the United States.

Zhu, He; Wilson, Fernando A; Stimpson, Jim P; Araz, Ozgur M; Kim, Jungyoon; Chen, Baojiang; Wu, Li-Tzy (Medical care, 2016-09)

This study examined the association between gasoline prices and hospitalizations for motorcycle and nonmotorcycle motor vehicle crash (MVC) injuries.Data on inpatient hospitalizations were obtained from the 2001 to 2010 ...

Cortical Brain Activity Reflecting Attentional Biasing Toward Reward-Predicting Cues Covaries with Economic Decision-Making Performance.

San Martín, René; Appelbaum, Lawrence G; Huettel, Scott A; Woldorff, Marty G (Cereb Cortex, 2016-01)

Adaptive choice behavior depends critically on identifying and learning from outcome-predicting cues. We hypothesized that attention may be preferentially directed toward certain outcome-predicting cues. We studied this ...

Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Ventral Medial Prefrontal Cortex Volumes Differ in Maltreated Youth with and without Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Morey, Rajendra A; Haswell, Courtney C; Hooper, Stephen R; De Bellis, Michael D (Neuropsychopharmacology, 2016-02)

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is considered a disorder of recovery where individuals fail to learn and retain extinction of the traumatic fear response. In maltreated youth, PTSD is common, chronic, and associated ...

Host gene expression classifiers diagnose acute respiratory illness etiology.

Tsalik, Ephraim L; Henao, Ricardo; Nichols, Marshall; Burke, Thomas; Ko, Emily R; McClain, Micah T; Hudson, Lori L; ... (24 authors) (Sci Transl Med, 2016-01-20)

Acute respiratory infections caused by bacterial or viral pathogens are among the most common reasons for seeking medical care. Despite improvements in pathogen-based diagnostics, most patients receive inappropriate antibiotics. ...

Trends and Correlates of Cannabis-involved Emergency Department Visits: 2004 to 2011.

Zhu, He; Wu, Li-Tzy (Journal of addiction medicine, 2016-11)

To examine trends and correlates of cannabis-involved emergency department (ED) visits in the United States from 2004 to 2011.Data were obtained from the 2004 to 2011 Drug Abuse Warning Network. We analyzed trend ...

Traditional medicine practices among community members with diabetes mellitus in Northern Tanzania: an ethnomedical survey.

Lunyera, Joseph; Wang, Daphne; Maro, Venance; Karia, Francis; Boyd, David; Omolo, Justin; Patel, Uptal D; ... (9 authors) (BMC complementary and alternative medicine, 2016-08-11)

Diabetes is a growing burden in sub-Saharan Africa where traditional medicines (TMs) remain a primary form of healthcare in many settings. In Tanzania, TMs are frequently used to treat non-communicable diseases, yet little ...

Trends in cannabis use disorders among racial/ethnic population groups in the United States.

Wu, Li-Tzy; Zhu, He; Swartz, Marvin S (Drug and alcohol dependence, 2016-08)

BACKGROUND:Minority groups generally experience more disparities than whites in behavioral healthcare use. The population of racial/ethnic groups is growing faster than whites. Given increased concerns of cannabis use (CU) ...