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Exploring the Influence of Drug Trafficking Gangs on Overdose Deaths in the Largest Narcotics Market in the Eastern United States

Social Sciences, 2020
Research has found that drug markets tend to cluster in space, potentially because of the profit that can be made when customers are drawn to areas with multiple suppliers.
Nicole J. Johnson, Caterina G. Roman, Alyssa K. Mendlein, Courtney Harding, Melissa Francis, Laura Hendrick   +5 more
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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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Evaluation of factors related to overdose in patients with impaired consciousness who are transported by emergency medical services: an age-specific research

Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences, 2021
Background Drug overdose accounts for most of the admissions to the emergency department. Prescription drugs, most of which are psychotropic medications, are often misused for drug overdose.
Kazuki Nagashima, Megumi Sumida, Shoichi Imanaka, Tatsuro Kuwabara, Ichiro Kaneko, Yasufumi Miyake, Nobuhiro Yasuno, Fumio Itagaki, Machiko Watanabe   +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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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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