This paper examines the discursive and material construction of the ongoing US opioid epidemic. It argues that the epidemic cannot be understood apart from the reciprocal relation of cultural and economic processes that have made possible the formation of a market for prescription painkillers. Through an analysis of the articulation and interaction of medical, cultural, political, and market discourses, the author shows how these have been mobilized within a network of actors and institutions in ...
Tópico(s): Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
2017 - Routledge | Journal of Cultural Economy
Tópico(s): Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
1997 - Nature Portfolio | Nature
Murray Feshbach, Alfred Friendly,
... and dying new ills, old strategies short-changed opiates for the masses failing according to plan there ought to be ...
Tópico(s): Transboundary Water Resource Management
1992 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
Methadone can slow HIV's spread, yet Russia outlaws the drug, and Ukraine, which only recently made it legal, struggles to meet demand.
Tópico(s): Economic Sanctions and International Relations
2010 - American Association for the Advancement of Science | Science
Afghanistan produces almost all of the world's illegal opiates. Should it eradicate the poppy trade or experiment with legalizing it to make painkillers for the developing world? Katharine Sanderson reports.
Tópico(s): Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
2007 - Nature Portfolio | Nature
... for healthful choices in living.In first writing “Opiates for the Masses” (1), Dr. Satel took issue with those who ... 2000, 304 pp., $27.00.References1. Satel S: Opiates for the masses. Wall Street Journal, June 8, 1998, editorial pageGoogle ...
Tópico(s): Child and Adolescent Health
2002 - American Psychiatric Association | American Journal of Psychiatry
Ron Shachar, Tülin Erdem, Keisha M. Cutright, Gavan J. Fitzsimons,
Are brands the “new religion”? Practitioners and scholars have been intrigued by the possibility, but strong theory and empirical evidence supporting the existence of a relationship between brands and religion is scarce. In what follows, we argue and demonstrate that religiosity is indeed related to “brand reliance,” i.e., the degree to which consumers prefer branded goods over unbranded goods or goods without a well-known national brand. We theorize that brands and religiosity may serve as substitutes ...
Tópico(s): Religion and Society Interactions
2010 - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | Marketing Science
Charles E. Yesalis, Michael S. Bahrke, James E. Wright,
... Marx regarding religion. If sport has become the opiate of the masses, then we must be prepared for indifference on the part of the public regarding ...
Tópico(s): Doping in Sports
2000 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
... a single and seamless global system of relations. For others, it is a mystification of the functioning of power, a new opiate-of-the-masses type of explanation, a vague cultural-institutional formation with a suspicious structural autonomy. Or is a concept such as spectacle a necessary tool for the figuration of a radical systemic shift in ...
Tópico(s): Theatre and Performance Studies
1989 - The MIT Press | October
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Tópico(s): Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
2016 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Policy History
Anne‐Maree Kelly, Debra Kerr, Zeff Koutsogiannis, Paul Dietze, Ian Patrick, Tony Walker,
... patients (71 IM and 84 IN) requiring treatment for suspected opiate overdose and attended by paramedics of the Metropolitan Ambulance Service (MAS) and Rural Ambulance Victoria (RAV) in Victoria. Main ...
Tópico(s): HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
2005 - Wiley | The Medical Journal of Australia
Tony L. Yaksh, Kelly A. Eddinger, Shinichi Kokubu, Zhenping Wang, Anna DiNardo, Roshni Ramachandran, Yuelian Zhu, Yajun He, Fieke Weren, Daphne Quang, Shelle Malkmus, Katherine Lansu, Wesley K. Kroeze, Brian P. Eliceiri, Joanne Steinauer, Peter W. Schiller, Peter Gmeiner, Linda M. Page, Keith R. Hildebrand,
... mast cell stabilizers, the authors hypothesized a role for meningeal mast cell/fibroblast activation. Using the guinea pig, the authors asked: (1) Are intrathecal morphine masses blocked by opiate antagonism?; (2) Do opioid agonists not producing mast ...
Tópico(s): Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
2019 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Anesthesiology
... study considers the assertion that religion is the opiate of the masses. Using a special module of the General Social Survey, I first demonstrate that religion functions as a compensatory resource for structurally disadvantaged groups—women, racial minorities, those with ...
Tópico(s): Electoral Systems and Political Participation
2020 - Oxford University Press | Social Forces
... projects. Sport now stands alongside religion as an opiate for the masses. If war is politics by other means, then ...
Tópico(s): Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
2012 - SAGE Publishing | World Policy Journal
Rovine Naluyimbazi, Tamara N. Fitzgerald,
Opioids are effective analgesics that should be used for moderate to severe pain, including post-operative pain. However, there is a huge discrepancy in the availability of opioids between low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and high-income countries (HICs). In “A Scoping Review on the Availability and Utilization of Essential Opioid Analgesics in Sub-Saharan Africa” 1 Yao J.S. Kibu O.D. Asahngwa C. et al. A scoping review on the availability and utilization of essential opioid analgesics in Sub- ...
Tópico(s): Anesthesia and Pain Management
2023 - Elsevier BV | The American Journal of Surgery
Peiwen Chen, Dongmei Wang, Meili Li, Yanding Zhang, Rémi Quirion, Yanguo Hong,
Abstract Prevention of opiate tolerance is a critical issue in pain management. The present study was designed to characterize the pharmacological properties of sensory neuron‐specific receptors (SNSR; also known as Mas‐related gene receptors, or Mrg) for their modulation in the development of morphine tolerance and to investigate the underlying mechanism(s). Daily coadministration of the ...
Tópico(s): Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
2010 - Wiley | Journal of Neuroscience Research
Magdalena Mas Nieto, Jodie Wilson, Annie Cupo, Bernárd P. Roques, Florence Noble,
The endogenous opioid system is often assumed to play a role in vulnerability to drug abuse. However, controversial results have been reported regarding the levels of enkephalins or preproenkephalin in neurons of rodent brains after opiate administration. The present study was performed to determine the extracellular levels of enkephalins and its physiological antagonist cholecystokinin (CCK), using in vivo microdialysis in freely moving rats after morphine-induced physical dependence or positive ...
Tópico(s): Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
2002 - Society for Neuroscience | Journal of Neuroscience
... scientific research. However, it has its own drawbacks for individuals and the society as a whole. Nowadays, technology has serious social cost, most notably, “mass alienation.” It has already weakened our “collective conscious”, has become opiate of the masses and a source of disintegration, deviance, strain, and ...
Tópico(s): Information Systems Theories and Implementation
2016 - | International Journal of Social Science Studies
... of heal ing. These levels constitute a framework for analyzing the relation between healing and identity politics that is potentially more nuanced than either the position that ritual healing is a futile expression of frustration—the opiate of the masses interpretation—or that ritual healing is a subtle ...
Tópico(s): Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
1999 - Wiley | American Ethnologist
Charles P. Flynn, Suzanne Kunkel,
... multivariegated history. Feuerbach (1845, 1857) provided the foundations for most later compensatory models of religiosity with his view of God and other supernaturalistic conceptions as projections of human needs. Marx's noted conception of religion as the opiate of the masses extends and specifies this by asserting that belief ...
Tópico(s): Religion and Society Interactions
1987 - | Sociological Analysis
In his news story “No opiate substitutes for the masses of IDUs” (special section on HIV/AIDS in Europe, 9 July 2010, p. [165][1]), J. Cohen summarized an interview with ...
Tópico(s): HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
2011 - American Association for the Advancement of Science | Science
Athina L. Van Gasse, Vito Sabato, Margaretha A. Faber, Margo M. Hagendorens, Didier G. Ebo,
... well as the uncertainties associated with skin testing for opiates. Alternatively, as basophils barely express the MRGPRX2,5Sabato V. Van Gasse A.L. Cop N. Claesen K. Decuyper I. Faber M. et al.The Mas-related G protein-coupled receptor MRGPRX2 is expressed ...
Tópico(s): Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
2017 - Elsevier BV | The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
Jeffrey T Lordan, Mary Phillips, Joo-Young Chun, Tim Worthington, Neville Menezes, Robin Lightwood, Fuad Hussain, C. T. Tibbs, N D Karanjia,
... with CP are refractory to nutritional support and opiate analgesia, making management challenging.Pancreatic rest can provide symptomatic relief. However, achieving simultaneous pancreatic rest and adequate nutritional support in these patients is difficult. We describe a technique for providing nutritional support and pancreatic rest in patients with intractable symptomatic CP.Three patients with symptomatic CP refractory to standard treatment were included in the study. All 3 patients had masses associated with the pancreas. Symptom relief and adequate ...
Tópico(s): Intestinal Malrotation and Obstruction Disorders
2009 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Pancreas
... been transformed into a kind of fairy pedagogy for capitalism akin to the “We’re making progress” of George W. Bush. Both serve to opiate the masses’ suffering in favor of a form of spiritual equanimity that really amounts to little more than the attempt to fashion people to work as placated agents for the monetization of hedonism. Click for larger view ...
Tópico(s): Spatial and Cultural Studies
2009 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Theory & Event
... we provided with the latest form of the "opiate of the masses" — a form of religion for the upper middle class and the variety of " ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2012 - Duke University Press | Tikkun
... President. Currently, she is serving as the editor for the Journal of Marketing Research. Gavan J. Fitzsimons (“ Brands: The Opiate of the Nonreligious Masses? ”) is the R. David Thomas professor of marketing ... of telecommunications products. He is an associate editor for Marketing Science and Quantitative Marketing and Economics and a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Research in Marketing and the Journal of Interactive Marketing. Ron Shachar (“ Brands: The Opiate of the Nonreligious Masses? ”) is a professor of marketing at Tel Aviv ...
2011 - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | Marketing Science
... of the 1970s. Marxism is, of course, known for its dismissal of religion as an “opiate of the masses,” but as Clos shows, the history of late ...
Tópico(s): Religion and Society Interactions
2012 - Michigan State University | Journal for the Study of Radicalism
... Morality, in many ways, has become the new opiate of the masses. Nevertheless, it is far from obvious that this deplorable situation should call for a wholesale rejection of morality. Is it not ...
Tópico(s): Philosophical Ethics and Theory
2012 - University of Hawaii Press | Philosophy East and West
... Republic of China. Huidaomen are presented as the "opiate of the people," peddled to the suffering masses during a difficult period by evil charlatans eager for money and fame. At the same time, Lu ...
Tópico(s): Chinese history and philosophy
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Chinese Studies in History
... that holds that faith in technology is an opiate of the masses. Evangelism doubtless animates many projections, but you miss the point of a Disney World if you miss its sincerely vulgar, therefore intensely human, affection for technology, and you certainly miss the fun. Minor ...
Tópico(s): Space exploration and regulation
1989 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Technology and Culture