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Deaths of Despair: A Scoping Review on the Social Determinants of Drug Overdose, Alcohol-Related Liver Disease and Suicide

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Background: There is a lack of consensus on the social determinants of Deaths of Despair (DoD), i.e., an increase in mortality attributed to drug overdose, alcohol-related liver disease, and suicide in the United States (USA) during recent years.
Elisabet Beseran, J. Pericàs, Lucinda Cash‐Gibson, M. Ventura-Cots, K. Porter, J. Benach   +5 more
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Forecasted and Observed Drug Overdose Deaths in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020

JAMA Network Open, 2022
This cross-sectional study uses data from the National Vital Statistics System to compare forecasted numbers of drug overdose deaths in the US in the latter 43 weeks of 2020 with the observed number of overdose deaths in that period.
Abigail R Cartus, Yu Li, Alexandria Macmadu, W. Goedel, Bennett Allen, Magdalena Cerdá, Brandon D. L. Marshall   +6 more
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COVID-19 and the Drug Overdose Crisis: Uncovering the Deadliest Months in the United States, January‒July 2020.

American Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objectives. To determine the magnitude of increases in monthly drug-related overdose mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.Methods.
Joseph Friedman, Samir Akre
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Provincial Overdose Cohort: Population Data Linkage During an Overdose Crisis

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2020
Introduction In 2016, the Provincial Overdose Cohort (ODC) was created following the declaration of the public health emergency in British Columbia (BC), Canada.
Chloé Xavier, Bin Zhao, Wen Qi Gan, Amanda Slaunwhite   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

One-Year Association of Drug Possession Law Change With Fatal Drug Overdose in Oregon and Washington.

JAMA Psychiatry, 2023
Importance Two states modified laws to remove or substantially reduce criminal penalties for any drug possession. The hypothesis was that removing criminal penalties for drug possession may reduce fatal drug overdoses due to reduced incarceration and ...
Joshi S, Rivera BD, Cerdá M, Guy GP, Strahan A, Wheelock H, Davis CS.   +6 more
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Drug Overdose Mortality Among People Experiencing Homelessness, 2003 to 2018

JAMA Network Open, 2022
This cohort study describes the death rates and drug types involved in fatal drug overdoses in the past 15 years among individuals experiencing homelessness in Boston, Massachusetts.
Danielle R. Fine, Kirsten A Dickins, Logan D. Adams, Denise de Las Nueces, Karen Weinstock, Joseph Wright, Jessie M. Gaeta, Travis P. Baggett   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2017–2018

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020
Of the 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, approximately two thirds (47,600) involved an opioid (1). In recent years, increases in opioid-involved overdose deaths have been driven primarily by deaths involving synthetic opioids ...
N. Wilson, M. Kariisa, P. Seth, Herschel Smith, N. Davis   +4 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

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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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
doaj   +1 more source