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Using prescribing and toxicology data to determine non-medical prescription drug overdose

Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2020
Background: Overdose deaths have increased dramatically in the United States and are often attributed to prescription opioids. This study presents a framework for “overdose typologies”, including non-medical prescription drug use, to more accurately ...
Philip Huynh, Grant Victor, Brad Ray
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Virtual overdose monitoring services/mobile overdose response services: estimated number of potentially averted drug poisoning fatality events by various telephone and digital-based overdose prevention/harm reduction services in North America

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundVirtual overdose monitoring services or Mobile Overdose Response Services (MORS) are novel virtual harm reduction tools which have gained popularity as an adjunct public health intervention especially for those who cannot access harm reduction ...
William Rioux, Benjamin Enns, S. Monty Ghosh, S. Monty Ghosh   +3 more
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Psychiatric intervention and repeated admission to emergency centres due to drug overdose

BJPsych Open, 2015
Background Repeated drug overdose is a major risk factor for suicide.
Akiko Kanehara, Hayato Yamana, Hideo Yasunaga, Hiroki Matsui, Shuntaro Ando, Tsuyoshi Okamura, Yousuke Kumakura, Kiyohide Fushimi, Kiyoto Kasai   +8 more
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Overdose experiences among injection drug users in Bangkok, Thailand

Harm Reduction Journal, 2010
Background Although previous studies have identified high levels of drug-related harm in Thailand, little is known about illicit drug overdose experiences among Thai drug users.
Wood Evan, Kaplan Karyn, Suwannawong Paisan, Hayashi Kanna, Fairbairn Nadia, Milloy M-J, Kerr Thomas   +6 more
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Fentanyl-driven acceleration of racial, gender and geographical disparities in drug overdose deaths in the United States.

PLOS Global Public Health, 2023
We examine trends in drug overdose deaths by race, gender, and geography in the United States during the period 2013-2020. Race and gender specific crude rates were extracted from the final National Vital Statistics System multiple cause-of-death ...
Maria R D'Orsogna, Lucas Böttcher, Tom Chou   +2 more
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Understanding Fatal and Non-Fatal Drug Overdose Risk Factors: Overdose Risk Questionnaire Pilot Study—Validation

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021
Background: Drug overdoses (fatal and non-fatal) are among the leading causes of death in population with substance use disorders. The aim of the current study was to identify risk factors for fatal and non-fatal drug overdose for predominantly opioid ...
Radhouene Doggui, Keyrellous Adib, Alex Baldacchino   +2 more
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New psychoactive substances (NPS) identified in Canada: Results of the online NPS survey (2020–2023)

Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health
Purpose and scope: New psychoactive substances (NPS) are a broad class of compounds that are typically designed to mimic illicit substances and circumvent legislative controls.
Sophie Rymill, Lexy Candler, Pavitra Ramachandran, Chantal Bacev-Giles, Raymond-Jonas Ngendabanka, Stephane Racine, Nancy He, Michelle Ross, Susantha Mohottalage   +8 more
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Physicians’ Self-Reported Knowledge and Behaviors Related to Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain and Diagnosing Opioid Use Disorder, DocStyles, 2020

AJPM Focus
Introduction: In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline) to improve opioid prescribing while minimizing associated ...
Kathleen R. Ragan-Burnett, MSPH, C. Robinette Curtis, MD, Kristine M. Schmit, MD, Christina A. Mikosz, MD, Lyna Z. Schieber, MD, Gery P. Guy, Jr, PhD, Tamara M. Haegerich, PhD   +6 more
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Evolving trends in drug overdose mortality in the USA from 2000 to 2020: an age-period-cohort analysisResearch in context

EClinicalMedicine, 2023
Summary: Background: Drug overdose deaths in the USA have increased rapidly in the past 20 years, and understanding patterns and trends in mortality is essential to develop policy responses.
Sayuri Fujita-Imazu, Jinzhao Xie, Bibha Dhungel, Xinran Wang, Yijing Wang, Phuong Nguyen, July Khin Maung Soe, Jinghua Li, Stuart Gilmour   +8 more
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Attitudes and knowledge about naloxone and overdose prevention among detained drug users in Ningbo, China

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2012
Background To date there has been limited research on both the prevalence of overdose and drug user knowledge about overdose prevention and response methods in China.
Liu Yu, Bartlett Nicholas, Li Longhui, Lv Xiuyi, Zhang Yahai, Zhou Wenhua   +5 more
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