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Trends in drug overdose deaths among adults 65 years of age and older in Canada (2000-2022). [PDF]

Drug Alcohol Depend Rep
Background: Although young adults and middle-aged adults have borne the brunt of the drug overdose crisis in Canada, older adults are also at an increased risk of harms.
Imtiaz S, Ali F, Kaminski N, Russell C, Rehm J.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Vital Signs: Drug Overdose Deaths, by Selected Sociodemographic and Social Determinants of Health Characteristics — 25 States and the District of Columbia, 2019–2020

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2022
INTRODUCTION Drug overdose deaths increased approximately 30% from 2019 to 2020 in the United States. Examining rates by demographic and social determinants of health characteristics can identify disproportionately affected populations and inform ...
M. Kariisa, N. Davis, Sagar Kumar, P. Seth, C. Mattson, Farnaz Chowdhury, Christopher M. Jones   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drug Overdose Deaths Among Persons Aged 10–19 Years — United States, July 2019–December 2021

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2022
U.S. drug overdose deaths increased 30% from 2019 to 2020 and 15% in 2021, resulting in an estimated 108,000 deaths in 2021.* Among persons aged 14-18 years, overdose deaths increased 94% from 2019 to 2020 and 20% from 2020 to 2021 (1), although illicit ...
Lauren J Tanz, Amanda T. Dinwiddie, C. Mattson, J. O'Donnell, N. Davis   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of neighborhood-level COVID-19 mortality on the increase in drug overdose mortality in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

Inj Epidemiol
Background Overdose mortality increased substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is unclear to what extent the COVID-19 mortality had contributed to this increase at the neighborhood level. Methods This was an ecological study based on New York
Olawole W, Li G, Zhou Z, Wu Z, Chen Q.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Association between daily ambient temperature and drug overdose in Tokyo: a time-series study

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2022
Background: Previous studies have reported that high ambient temperature is associated with increased risk of suicide; however, the association has not been extensively investigated with drug overdose which is the most common method of unsuccessful ...
Ananya Roy, Md Ashraful Alam, Yoonhee Kim, Masahiro Hashizume   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

US Trends in Drug Overdose Mortality Among Pregnant and Postpartum Persons, 2017-2020.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2022
This study evaluates changes in overall and drug-specific overdose mortality among pregnant and postpartum persons before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
E. Bruzelius, S. Martins
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Drug Overdose Deaths in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Network Open, 2022
This cross-sectional study describes the nationwide trends in drug overdose mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic by age, sex, and race and ethnicity.
B. Han, Emily B. Einstein, Christopher M. Jones, Jessica H Cotto, W. Compton, N. Volkow   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Personal experience and awareness of opioid overdose occurrence among peers and willingness to administer naloxone in South Africa: findings from a three-city pilot survey of homeless people who use drugs

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Drug overdoses occur when the amount of drug or combination of drugs consumed is toxic and negatively affects physiological functioning. Opioid overdoses are responsible for the majority of overdose deaths worldwide.
Michael Wilson, Amanda Brumwell, M. J. Stowe, Shaun Shelly, Andrew Scheibe   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trends in and Characteristics of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyls — United States, 2019–2020

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2021
During May 2020-April 2021, the estimated number of drug overdose deaths in the United States exceeded 100,000 over a 12-month period for the first time, with 64.0% of deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (mainly illicitly manufactured
J. O'Donnell, Lauren J Tanz, R. Gladden, N. Davis, Jessica Bitting   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drug overdose among women in intimate relationships: The role of partner violence, adversity and relationship dependencies.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundThis study examines the relationship between experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV), exposure to prior childhood adversity, lifetime adverse experiences, drug-related relationship dependencies with intimate partners and overdose ...
Nabila El-Bassel, Phillip L Marotta, Dawn Goddard-Eckrich, Mingway Chang, Tim Hunt, Ewin Wu, Louisa Gilbert   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source