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A qualitative study of overdose responses among Chicago IDUs

Harm Reduction Journal, 2008
Background Opioid overdose is a leading cause of death among injection drug users. Over half of injection drug users report at least one nonfatal overdose during their lifetime.
Bigg Dan, Carlberg Suzanne, Scott Gregory, Gann Donald S, Sherman Susan G, Heimer Robert   +5 more
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Psychosocial and contextual correlates of opioid overdose risk among drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia

Harm Reduction Journal, 2009
Background Opioid overdose in Russia is a problem that has grown more severe as heroin abuse expanded over the past decade, yet few studies have explored it in detail.
Ilyuk Ruslan, Krupitsky Evgeny, Blinnikova Ksenia, Torban Mikhail, Green Traci C, Grau Lauretta E, Kozlov Andrei P, Heimer Robert   +7 more
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Prescription drug monitoring and drug overdose mortality [PDF]

Injury Epidemiology, 2014
Background: Abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid analgesics, has become a major source of injury mortality and morbidity in the United States. To prevent the diversion and misuse of controlled substances, many states have implemented prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs).
Li, Guohua, Brady, Joanne E., Lang, Barbara, Giglio, James F., Wunsch, Hannah, DiMaggio, Charles J.   +5 more
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The influence of the built environment on drug misuse and abuse

Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation
Drug misuse and overdoses (DMO) continue to rise in the United States and around the world. As the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown brought America to a standstill, the drug overdose epidemic took a sharp turn for the worse.
Adewumi Oladele, Edward Onyango, Kyle Esdaille   +2 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

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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Estimating changes in overdose death rates from increasing methamphetamine supply in Ohio: Evidence from crime lab data

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: We investigate the relationship between the supply of methamphetamine and overdose death risk in Ohio. Ohio and the overall US have experienced a marked increase in overdose deaths from methamphetamine combined with fentanyl over the last ...
Daniel Rosenblum, Jeffrey Ondocsin, Sarah G. Mars, Dennis Cauchon, Daniel Ciccarone   +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

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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Characteristics of Suicides Caused by Drug Overdose in the State of Maryland

Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2015
Suicidal drug overdose is a major public health issue. In the United States, every year more than 33,000 people commit suicides. Our study focused on the characteristics of suicide victims in the state of Maryland.
Ling Li, Xinbiao Liao, Guozhong Zhang, Daming Sun, Tiantong Yang, Keming Yun, Rebecca Phipps, Xiang Zhang, Mary G Ripple, David Fowler   +9 more
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Who is Overdosing? An Updated Picture of Overdose Deaths From 2008 to 2015

Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology, 2017
Purpose: To determine the role of opioids in drug overdose deaths in Allen County, Indiana between January 1, 2008, and December 31, 2015. Methods: File review of 418 overdose deaths was performed using Indiana State Department of Health death ...
Gregory Eigner, Brian Henriksen, Philip Huynh, David Murphy, Christopher Brubaker, Jana Sanders, Deborah McMahan   +6 more
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Dependence, abuse, and psychosocial characteristics of patients transported to the emergency department due to overdose of over‐the‐counter drugs

PCN Reports
Aim This study examined the conditions of drug abuse and dependence as well as the psychosocial characteristics of patients transported to an emergency department for over‐the‐counter (OTC) drug overdose.
Saeko Kohara, Michiko Takai, Ryoko Kyan, Kenji Yamamoto, Hidehito Miyazaki, Masafumi Yoshimura, Yoshito Kamijo   +6 more
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