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Therapeutic drug monitoring in drug overdose [PDF]

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1999
The treatment of poisoned patients is still largely defined by history, clinical assessment and interpretation of ancillary investigations. Measurement of drug concentrations is clinically important for relatively few compounds. Most measurements form an adjunct to and should not be considered a substitute for clinical assessment.
Ian M Whyte, Andrew H. Dawson
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Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky, 2019–2024: are we back to Pre-COVID-19 levels? [PDF]

Injury Epidemiology
Background Kentucky has historically experienced a high burden of drug overdose deaths. During the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state saw a 45% increase in overdose deaths in 2020, followed by an additional 15% increase in 2021.
Aaron P. Smith, Juan Lang, Carmen Canedo, Patricia R. Freeman, Lindsey R. Hammerslag, Daniel R. Harris, Amber Kizewski, Peter Rock, Nima M. Seyedtalebi, Philip M. Westgate, Jeffery Talbert, Sharon L. Walsh, Svetla Slavova   +12 more
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Trends in drug overdose deaths among adults 65 years of age and older in Canada (2000–2022) [PDF]

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: Although young adults and middle-aged adults have borne the brunt of the drug overdose crisis in Canada, older adults are also at an increased risk of harms.
Sameer Imtiaz, Farihah Ali, Nat Kaminski, Cayley Russell, Jürgen Rehm   +4 more
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A chain of survival for drug overdose [PDF]

Resuscitation Plus
Drug overdose is a leading global cause of preventable morbidity and mortality and is closely associated with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. While the American Heart Association’s “chain of survival” has improved outcomes in traditional cardiac arrest, it does not address the unique characteristics and challenges of overdose-related emergencies.
Matthew Robert Dernbach, Nabarun Dasgupta, Adams L. Sibley, Ida Tylleskar, Arne Kristian Skulberg   +4 more
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Impact of neighborhood-level COVID-19 mortality on the increase in drug overdose mortality in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

Injury Epidemiology
Background Overdose mortality increased substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is unclear to what extent the COVID-19 mortality had contributed to this increase at the neighborhood level. Methods This was an ecological study based on New York
Wuraola Olawole, Guohua Li, Ziqi Zhou, Zhixing Wu, Qixuan Chen   +4 more
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Who feels safe calling 911: are prior experiences of anti-Black racial discrimination associated with hesitancy seeking emergency medical services in the event of accidental drug overdose? – a study protocol [PDF]

Annals of Medicine
Background Racial discrimination is associated with health disparities among Black Americans, a group that has experienced an increase in rates of fatal drug overdose.
O. Trent Hall, Candice Trimble, Stephanie Garcia, Sydney Grayson, Lucy Joseph, Parker Entrup, Oluwole Jegede, Jose Perez Martel, Jeanette Tetrault, Myra Mathis, Ayana Jordan   +10 more
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Using Geographically Weighted Regression to Explore County Subdivision Level Predictors of Drug Overdose Death in Connecticut, U.S.

Cybergeo, 2023
Deaths caused by drug overdoses have increased significantly over the past 2 decades in the U.S, becoming a public health concern. Existing empirical evidence examining the spatial association between the contextual correlates and drug overdose death ...
Yunliang Meng
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“A lotta people switched playing hard ball to playing Russian roulette”: Experiences with rising overdose incidence caused by drug supply changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the San Diego-Tijuana border metroplex

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2023
: Background: People who use drugs (PWUD) in the San Diego, USA and Tijuana, Mexico metroplex face high overdose risk related to historic methamphetamine use and relatively recent fentanyl introduction into local drug supplies.
C.J. Valasek, Samantha A. Streuli, Heather A. Pines, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Annick Borquez, Philippe Bourgois, Tara Stamos-Buesig, Carlos F. Vera, Alicia Harvey-Vera, Angela R. Bazzi   +9 more
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Variation in US drug overdose mortality within and between Hispanic/Latine subgroups: A disaggregation of national data

SSM - Mental Health, 2022
This study examined differences across Latine heritage groups (i.e., Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, South American) in rates of US drug overdose mortality.The study utilized 2015–2019 mortality data from the National Center ...
Manuel Cano, Camila Gelpí-Acosta
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Predicting accidental drug overdose as the cause of fatality in near real-time using the Suspected Potential Overdose Tracker (SPOT): public health implications

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Effective responses to the worsening drug overdose epidemic require accurate and timely drug overdose surveillance data. The objectives of this paper are to describe the development, functionality, and accuracy of the Suspected Potential ...
Karli R. Hochstatter, Sonal Rastogi, Kathryn Klein, Cameron Tait-Ozer, Nabila El-Bassel, Jason Graham   +5 more
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