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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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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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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.
A H, Dawson, I M, Whyte
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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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Drug overdose resulting in quadriplegia [PDF]

European Spine Journal, 2012
To describe a case of cervical flexion myelopathy resulting from a drug overdose.A 56-year-old male presented to the emergency department unable to move his extremities following drug overdose. Neurological examination revealed him to be at C6 ASIA A spinal cord injury.
Teresa S, Wang, Betsy H, Grunch, Jessica R, Moreno, Carlos A, Bagley, Oren N, Gottfried   +4 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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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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Drug overdose in the ED: a record linkage study examining emergency department ICD-10 coding practices in a cohort of people who inject drugs

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Drug overdose is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity amongst people who inject drugs (PWID). Drug overdose surveillance typically relies on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) coding system, however its real world ...
Rehana Di Rico, Dhanya Nambiar, Mark Stoové, Paul Dietze   +3 more
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Relationship between tracheal intubation and the drugs used by patients with drug overdose due to self-harm

Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences, 2022
Background Tracheal intubation may be performed in patients with drug overdose due to self-harm; however, the details of the causative drug are unknown.
Kazuki Nagashima, Hiroyuki Hosono, Machiko Watanabe   +2 more
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