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Youth and young adult knowledge of and access to opioid harm reduction policies and interventions in North Carolina

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Introduction: From 2019–2021, overdose deaths among youth and young adults ages 10–19 years of age residing in the United States increased by 109 %. We sought to examine the extent to which youth and young adults who have experience with substance use ...
Kathleen L. Egan, Thomas P. McCoy, Renata Yassa, Jonna Daniel, Kimberly G. Wagoner, Melinda M. Pankratz, Justin B. Moore, Jennifer Cornacchione Ross, Parissa J. Ballard, Scott D. Rhodes   +9 more
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Increased expression of aromatase after focal cerebral ischemia: Relevance to neuroprotection and functional recovery

Neuroprotection, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim Aromatase is the key enzyme in the biosynthesis of 17β‐estradiol, the most potent estrogen, which has pleiotropic neuroprotective properties. Aromatase levels increase in the brain after stroke, and its gene variants increase susceptibility to stroke. This study aims to determine whether aromatase overexpression improves stroke outcome and
Lindsay Gallagher, Anna F. Dominiczak, Luis M. Garcia‐Segura, Nobuhiro Harada, J. B. Hutchison, James M. Mullin, Delyth Graham, Peter O'Shaughnessy, Hilary Victoria O. Carswell   +8 more
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Fentanyl Test Strip Use and Overdose History among Individuals on Medication for Opioid Use Disorder

Austin Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology, 2021
Background: The number of deaths from drug overdose in the United States has more than doubled in the past decade. In particular, drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl have doubled every year since 2013. Rapid fentanyl test strips (FTS) are a useful strategy for detecting traces of fentanyl in substances and have received overwhelming support from ...
C B, Mistler, A O, Rosen, W, Eger, M M, Copenhaver, R, Shrestha   +4 more
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Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

“I wouldn’t need Narcan for myself, but I can have it for somebody else:” perceptions of harm reduction among hospitalized patients with OUD

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2023
Background Extant literature is limited on adoption of evidence-based harm reduction strategies in hospitals. We explored patient perceptions of incorporating harm reduction supplies and education in hospital care with patients with opioid use disorder ...
Rachel French, M. Holliday Davis, Shoshana V. Aronowitz, Molly Crowe, Matthew Abrams, Grace Edwards, Margaret Lowenstein   +6 more
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The Polysubstance Assessment Tool: Reliability, acceptability and feasibility of a novel measure of polysubstance use

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims There are currently no brief quantitative assessments that capture the drug patterns of people who engage in use of more than one drug on the same day or simultaneously. The current study examined the retest reliability, acceptability and feasibility of a new quantitative assessment to measure polysubstance use.
Amanda M. Bunting, Charles M. Cleland, S. Michaela Barratt, Brittany Griffin, Jaimee Williams, Carrie B. Oser, Joshua D. Lee, Jennifer McNeely   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Use of fentanyl test strips by people who inject drugs: Baseline findings from the South Atlantic Fentanyl Test Strip Study (SAFTSS)

International Journal of Drug Policy
Research published during the early fentanyl period exposed a growing concern of unwitting fentanyl exposure and a general willingness to use fentanyl test strips (FTS). A paucity of FTS studies over the last several years has restricted our ability to understand FTS use in the late fentanyl era. The South Atlantic FTS Study (SAFTSS) was established to
Jon E Zibbell, Arnie Aldridge, Nicholas Peiper, Sarah E. Duhart Clarke, Abigail Rinderle, Judith Feinberg   +5 more
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Temporal and geographical patterns of nitazene detections in drug samples and biospecimens in the United States, 2019–2024

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Nitazenes are a novel subclass of synthetic opioids that have been increasingly implicated in the United States (US) overdose crisis. Despite their growing presence in the illicit drug supply, national trends have not been systematically evaluated.
David T. Zhu, Nicole D. Fitzgerald, Joseph J. Palamar, Alex J. Krotulski   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parasomnias and sleep‐related movement disorders induced by drugs in the adult population: a review about iatrogenic medication effects

Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2025.
Summary Parasomnias and sleep‐related movement disorders (SRMD) are major causes of sleep disorders and may be drug induced. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the literature to examine the association between drug use and the occurrence of parasomnias and SRMD.
Sylvain Dumont, Vanessa Bloch, Agnès Lillo‐Lelouet, Christine Le Beller, Pierre A. Geoffroy, Marc Veyrier   +5 more
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“They Look At Us Like Parasites”: The Corporeal Stigmatization and Pathologization of Deportees in Tijuana, Mexico

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
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