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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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Harm reduction among injecting drug users - evidence of effectiveness [PDF]

, 2010
This chapter synthesises and evaluates the available direct evidence relating to the impact of needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid substitution treatment (OST), drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and peer naloxone distribution (PND) on HIV/hepatitis
Goldberg, David, Hickman, Matthew, Hutchinson, Sharon, Kimber, Jo, Palmateer, Norah, Rhodes, Tim   +5 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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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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Medication used in intentional drug overdose in Flanders 2008-2013 [PDF]

, 2019
Background : Intentional drug overdose is the most common method of self-harm. As psychiatric disorders are very common in self-harm patients, the medication used to treat these disorders can become the means for the self-harm act.
Portzky, Gwendolyn, Rotsaert, Ine, Van Heeringen, Cornelis, Vancayseele, Nikita   +3 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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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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Spatial Concentration of Opioid Overdose Deaths in Indianapolis: An Application of the Law of Crime Concentration at Place to a Public Health Epidemic [PDF]

, 2019
The law of crime concentration at place has become a criminological axiom and the foundation for one of the strongest evidence-based policing strategies to date.
Carter, Jeremy G., Mohler, George, Ray, Bradley   +2 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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Overdose Prevention and Response A guide for people who use drugs and harm reduction staff in Eastern Europe and Central Asia [PDF]

, 2009
Provides an overview of the drug overdose problem in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; describes overdose symptoms, factors that affect overdose risk, prevention methods, and step-by-step responses to an overdose.
Curtis, Matt, Guterman, Lydia
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