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A randomized clinical trial of a theory-based fentanyl overdose education and fentanyl test strip distribution intervention to reduce rates of opioid overdose: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2020
Background Opioid overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids, particularly illicitly manufactured fentanyl, remain a substantial public health concern in North America. Responses to overdose events (e.g., administration of naloxone and rescue breathing)
Brendan P. Jacka, Jacqueline E. Goldman, Jesse L. Yedinak, Edward Bernstein, Scott E. Hadland, Jane A. Buxton, Susan G. Sherman, Katie B. Biello, Brandon D. L. Marshall   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

A mixed-methods analysis of risk-reduction strategies adopted by syringe services program participants and non-syringe services program participants in New York City

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Since the emergence of fentanyl in the drug market, syringe services programs (SSPs) have been at the forefront of providing life-saving tools such as naloxone and fentanyl test strips to people who use drugs (PWUD).
Nisha Beharie, Adelya Urmanche, Alex Harocopos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Just another thing for me to stress off of”: Responses to unintentional fentanyl use in a community-based study of people who use opioids

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
The unintentional consumption of fentanyl is a serious health risk for people who use illicit drugs. In an ongoing community-based study regarding polysubstance use among people who use opioids, we found that 17 of 58 (29%) of participants who did not ...
Jennifer Lorvick, Jordana L. Hemberg, Madeleine J. George, Joy R. Piontak, Megan L. Comfort   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

“It's my frenemy”: A qualitative exploration of knowledge and perceptions of fentanyl use during the COVID-19 pandemic in people who use drugs at a syringe services program in Philadelphia, PA

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundExacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the proliferation of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs, overdose deaths have surged in the United States, making it important to understand how individuals who use drugs experience and perceive the risks of ...
Sarah Bauerle Bass, Sarah Bauerle Bass, Patrick J. A. Kelly, Sphoorti Pandit-Kerr, Jenine Pilla, Katherine Morris, Erin Larsen, Jennifer P. Wisdom, Phillip R. Torralva   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perceptions of fentanyl among African Americans who misuse opioids: implications for risk reduction

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is 50 times more powerful than heroin and has become ubiquitous in the illicit drug supply in the USA.
Khary K. Rigg, Ethan S. Kusiak
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of fentanyl immunoassay test strips for rapid in-situ detection of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs in seized samples and alternative matrices

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2023
Ion mobility spectrometry is used for the rapid detection of drugs at points of security but are unable to differentiate some drugs leading to the instrument alarming for a drug not present in the sample. This can be particularly problematic for samples that alarm for fentanyl.
Norman, Caitlyn, Marland, Victoria, McKenzie, Craig, Ménard, Hervé, Nic Daéid, Niamh   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

“It wasn’t here, and now it is. It’s everywhere": fentanyl’s rising presence in Oregon’s drug supply

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Illicit fentanyl has contributed to a drastic increase in overdose drug deaths. While fentanyl has subsumed the drug supply in the Northeastern and Midwestern USA, it has more recently reached the Western USA.
Sarah S. Shin, Kate LaForge, Erin Stack, Justine Pope, Gillian Leichtling, Jessica E. Larsen, Judith M. Leahy, Andrew Seaman, Daniel Hoover, Laura Chisholm, Christopher Blazes, Robin Baker, Mikaela Byers, Katie Branson, P. Todd Korthuis   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Responding to a surge in overdose deaths: perspectives from US syringe services programs

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background US overdose deaths have reached a record high. Syringe services programs (SSPs) play a critical role in addressing this crisis by providing multiple services to people who use drugs (PWUD) that help prevent overdose death.
Madeline C. Frost, Elizabeth J. Austin, Maria A. Corcorran, Elsa S. Briggs, Czarina N. Behrends, Alexa M. Juarez, Noah D. Frank, Elise Healy, Stephanie M. Prohaska, Paul A. LaKosky, Shashi N. Kapadia, David C. Perlman, Bruce R. Schackman, Don C. Des Jarlais, Emily C. Williams, Sara N. Glick   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feasibility study of using mobile phone-based experience sampling to assess drug checking by opioid street drug users

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2023
Background To date, evaluations of take-home fentanyl (and/or benzodiazepine) test strip use — the most common form of drug checking services — and potential effects on overdose risk have relied on retrospective accounts for some preceding time period ...
James A. Swartz, Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti, A. David Jimenez, Lisa Robison-Taylor, Elizabeth Prete   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neural Network‐Based Detection of Adulterants in Opioid Samples Using IR Absorption Spectroscopy

Drug Testing and Analysis, EarlyView.
We construct a neural network for the classification of bromazolam and fluorofentanyl in illicit opioid samples. The model outperforms a random forest classifier and shows elevated performance for low concentration samples. ABSTRACT Community‐based drug checking services are challenged in their ability to reliably detect low concentration adulterants ...
Joshua Jai, Lea Gozdzialski, Bruce Wallace, Chris G. Gill, Dennis Hore   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source