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Orienting Patients to Greater Opioid Safety: Models of Community Pharmacy-Based Naloxone [PDF]
, 2015 The leading cause of adult injury death in the USA is drug overdose, the majority of which involves prescription opioid medications. Outside of the USA, deaths by drug overdose are also on the rise, and overdose is a leading cause of death for drug users.
Bratberg, Jeffrey P. +4 more
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Increased risk of HIV and other drug-related harms associated with injecting in public places: national bio-behavioural survey of people who inject drugs [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Whilst injecting drugs in public places is considered a proxy for high risk behaviour among people who inject drugs (PWID), studies quantifying its relationship with multiple drug-related harms are lacking and none have examined this in the ...
Goldberg, David J. +9 more
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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 +2 more
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Deep neural networks for fine-grained surveillance of overdose mortality [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Surveillance of drug overdose deaths relies on death certificates for identification of the substances that caused death. Drugs and drug classes can be identified through the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes present on death certificates.
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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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Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose Breast cancer is a neoplastic disease with high prevalence among women. Radiotherapy is one of the principal treatment modalities for this disease, but it poses significant challenges. This study aimed to compare and evaluate the technical and dosimetric performance of conventional C‐arm linac systems and a new design, Halcyon, in the ...
Mustafa Çağlar +8 more
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What affects chronic lithium poisoning in psychiatric patients? - a case report
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2022 INTRODUCTION: Despite medical developments, drug poisoning still occurs. Lithium is a drug that has been used for more than 60 years as a mood stabilizer in the treatment and prevention of bipolar disorder, mania and recurrent depression. Lithium is the
Kinga Pożarowska +3 more
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Trends in Drug Overdose Mortality in Ohio During the First 7 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic
JAMA Network Open, 2021 This cross-sectional study uses data from the Ohio Department of Health to evaluate trends in drug overdose mortality in that state by type of drug and user age during the first 7 months of the COVID-19 epidemic.
J. Currie +3 more
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Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose Volumetric‐modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatment planning allows a compromise between a sufficient coverage of the planning target volume (PTV) and a simultaneous sparing of organs‐at‐risk (OARs). Particularly in the case of lung tumors, deciding whether it is possible or worth spending more time on further improvements of a treatment
Johann Brand +4 more
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Risk of Overdose-Related Death for People with A History of Incarceration
International Journal of Population Data Science, 2020 Introduction Epidemiologic studies have shown that people released from correctional facilities are at substantially increased risk of overdose-related death compared with the general population.
Wenqi Gan +4 more
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