Phraseological Units Describing Opioid Crisis

Towards the Automatic Identification of Spanish Verbal Phraseological Units

Verbal Phraseological Units are expressions made up of two or more words in which at least one of these words is a verb that plays the role of the predicate. Their main attribute is that this form of expression has taken on a more specific meaning than the expression itself. The automatic recognition of this type of linguistic structures is a very important task, since they are the standard way...

Identification of Verbal Phraseological Units in Mexican News Stories

Verbal Phraseological Units are phrases made up of two or more words in which at least one of the words is a verb that plays the role of the predicate. One of the characteristics of this type of expression is that its global meaning rarely can be deduced from the meaning of its components. The automatic recognition of this type of linguistic structures is a very important task, since they are a...

Phraseological Units as a Mirror of National Mentality

The relevance of the study is caused by the continuing interest of linguists to the problem of phraseology as a special – national – sign in the language system, reflecting the national-cultural features of the perception of the world, national mentality, ideological and mental attitudes of native speakers. The analysis of scientific literature showed that the phraseological layer reflecting th...

The Opioid Crisis From Research to Practice.

I n 2015, researchers from Yale University published a randomized, controlled trial on the treatment of opioid addiction.1 The study asked whether patients identified in the emergency department would benefit from prompt access to the well-proven medication buprenorphine, including onsite prior to discharge. The researchers were questioning not what, how, why, or who—but where. The results of t...

The Opioid Crisis and Its Consequences.