Abstract Background and aims Evidence regarding the impacts of supervised drug consumption services (SDC) remains mixed, and few evaluations have used individual‐level, linkable health data to examine service withdrawal. In September 2024, the Red Deer overdose prevention site (OPS) in Alberta, Canada, was scheduled for closure, with operations ceasing
Nathaniel Day +10 more
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Decline in US Drug Overdose Deaths by Region, Substance, and Demographics.
Post LA +7 more
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The burden of drug overdose deaths among correctional populations: implications for interventions. [PDF]
Fischer B, Moghimi E, Weekes J.
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A call for action: Closing the evidence gap in management of stimulant‐induced psychosis
Abstract Background Stimulant‐induced psychosis (StIP) is emerging as one of most pressing health challenges. Over the past two decades, stimulant‐related harms and psychiatric care demands have risen sharply. Individuals with StIP often present with severe agitation and high suicide risk, and up to half progress to chronic psychotic illness within two
Anne Bouthillier +3 more
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Clinical Factors Associated With Ventricular Dysrhythmia in Emergency Department Patients With Severe QTc Prolongation After Drug Overdose. [PDF]
Simpson MD +9 more
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What anabolic–androgenic steroids reveal about the limits of current harm reduction models
Abstract Background Harm reduction has largely been shaped by responses to psychoactive drug use where the most urgent harms are acute. These models focus on overdose, blood‐borne viruses, and rapid‐onset toxicity related harms. When applied wholesale to anabolic–androgenic steroids (AAS), they obscure the distinctive pharmacology, consumer typologies,
Timothy Piatkowski +2 more
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Influence of a Pandemic on an Epidemic: A Population-Based Ecological Study of the Association Between COVID-19 Diagnoses and Drug Overdose Deaths in Rhode Island, 2023. [PDF]
Carrara RL +6 more
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Abstract Aim To monitor community‐level consumption of 20 illicit drugs across urban areas of England using wastewater‐based epidemiology (WBE) surveillance at high temporal resolution. Design, setting, cases This study was conducted over a 12‐month period in 2022 sampling 24‐hour composite wastewater samples at 15 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs ...
Helena Rapp‐Wright +14 more
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Structural racism: a fundamental cause of drug overdose disparities. [PDF]
Zhu DT.
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