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“It wasn’t here, and now it is. It’s everywhere": fentanyl’s rising presence in Oregon’s drug supply

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Illicit fentanyl has contributed to a drastic increase in overdose drug deaths. While fentanyl has subsumed the drug supply in the Northeastern and Midwestern USA, it has more recently reached the Western USA.
Sarah S. Shin, Kate LaForge, Erin Stack, Justine Pope, Gillian Leichtling, Jessica E. Larsen, Judith M. Leahy, Andrew Seaman, Daniel Hoover, Laura Chisholm, Christopher Blazes, Robin Baker, Mikaela Byers, Katie Branson, P. Todd Korthuis   +14 more
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Concentrated burdens: how self-interest and partisanship shape opinion on opioid treatment policy [PDF]

, 2019
When does self-interest influence public opinion on contentious public policies? The bulk of theory in political science suggests that self-interest is only a minor force in public opinion.
De Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Hankinson, Michael   +1 more
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Healing a Broken System: Veterans and the War on Drugs [PDF]

, 2012
This report examines the plight of returning veterans who struggle with incarceration and psychological wounds of war such as addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder -- and suggests reforms that could improve the health and preserve the freedom of ...

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Xylazine in Overdose Deaths and Forensic Drug Reports in US States, 2019-2022

JAMA Network Open
Key Points Question To what extent is xylazine reported in fatal overdoses and law enforcement drug submissions in different states? Findings In this cross-sectional study of US overdose deaths and forensic reports, 16 states had no xylazine forensic ...
Manuel Cano, Raminta Daniulaityte, Flavio Marsiglia   +2 more
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CASTNet: Community-Attentive Spatio-Temporal Networks for Opioid Overdose Forecasting

, 2019
Opioid overdose is a growing public health crisis in the United States. This crisis, recognized as "opioid epidemic," has widespread societal consequences including the degradation of health, and the increase in crime rates and family problems.
A Kennedy-Hendricks, A Kolodny, AM Ertugrul, DS Burke, H Jalal, M Pierce, M Warner, NB King, PJ Gruenewald, R Hammersley, RA Rudd, S Hochreiter, S Scardapane, T Bennett, T Seddon   +14 more
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Ethanol reversal of tolerance to the respiratory depressant effects of morphine [PDF]

, 2015
Opioids are the most common drugs associated with unintentional drug overdose. Death results from respiratory depression. Prolonged use of opioids results in the development of tolerance but the degree of tolerance is thought to vary between different ...
A Fugelstad, A Fugelstad, Abi Lyndon, AJ Ruttenber, Anne Lingford-Hughes, AR Lingford-Hughes, B Levine, BM Mathers, CA Paronis, Chris Bailey, CK Kuo, CN Lessov, CP Bailey, CP Bailey, CP Bailey, E Kelly, E Valjent, Eamonn Kelly, EB Rex, EJ Waite, F Chen, FL Smith, FL Smith, Graeme Henderson, GS Ling, H Sakakibara, HW Matthes, HY Lin, I Rodriguez-Martin, J Llorente, J McPherson, J Reneau, JM White, Joanne Roberts, John MacLachlan, JT Williams, JW Lewis, KL McGilliard, L He, LC Hull, LC Saland, LJ Sim-Selley, LM Bohn, LQ Hong-Brown, M Aliczki, M Hickman, M Hickman, M Inoue, M Pierce, Matthew Hickman, N Quillinan, NG Shah, R Cornish, R Romberg, Rob Hill, S Darke, S Darke, S Kishioka, Sarah Withey, SJ Slater, SV Dighe, TC Green, Yvonne Kershaw   +62 more
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The overdose epidemic: a study protocol to determine whether people who use drugs can influence or shape public opinion via mass media [PDF]

, 2022
Ehsan Jozaghi, VANDU
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Antidote application: an educational system for treatment of common toxin overdose [PDF]

, 2017
Poisonings account for almost 1% of emergency room visits each year. Time is a critical factor in dealing with a toxicologic emergency. Delay in dispensing the first antidote dose can lead to life-threatening sequelae.
Brusic, V., Chitkushev, L., Long, J., Zhang, G., Zhang, Y.   +4 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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Pulverizing medication as a harm reduction and intentional drug overdose prevention strategy: Two case studies [PDF]

, 2021
Keisuke Takanobu, Daisuke Okazaki, Shinya Watanabe, Nobuyuki Mitsui, Teruaki Tanaka   +4 more
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