Effectiveness of take ACTION online naloxone training for law enforcement officers
Health & Justice, 2023 Background Training law enforcement officers (LEOs) to administer naloxone is a recommended strategy to reduce overdose deaths in the United States. To achieve this, an evidence-based and scalable naloxone training curriculum that is easy to use and ...
Chin Hwa Dahlem +5 more
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Structured Actor-Critic for Managing Public Health Points-of-Dispensing [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Public health organizations face the problem of dispensing treatments (i.e., vaccines, antibiotics, and others) to groups of affected populations through "points-of-dispensing" (PODs) during emergency situations, typically in the presence of complexities like demand stochasticity, heterogenous utilities (e.g., for vaccine distribution, certain segments
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The influence of μ-opioid and noradrenaline reuptake inhibition in the modulation of pain responsive neurones in the central amygdala by tapentadol in rats with neuropathy [PDF]
, 2015 Treatments for neuropathic pain are either not fully effective or have problematic side effects. Combinations of drugs are often used. Tapentadol is a newer molecule that produces analgesia in various pain models through two inhibitory mechanisms, namely
Dickenson, AH, Friend, LV, Gonçalves, L
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Journal of addiction medicine, 2019 OBJECTIVE To assess the availability and price of naloxone as well as pharmacy staff knowledge of the standing order for naloxone in Pennsylvania pharmacies.
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The American Journal on Addictions, EarlyView.Abstract Background and Objectives Existing opioid agonist therapy (OAT) guidelines are far from sufficient to address rising opioid tolerances and potency of the unregulated opioid market in North America. Inadequate starting doses of OAT are a universally recognized barrier for people who use fentanyl.
Pouya Azar +11 more
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Associations Between Copays, Coverage Limits for Naloxone, and Prescribing in Medicaid
Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2022 Aims: To describe naloxone dispensing in Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS) and examine relationships between copays and coverage limits for naloxone and its dispensing rates.
John C Messinger +4 more
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State Drug Policy Effectiveness: Comparative Policy Analysis of Drug Overdose Mortality [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Opioid overdose rates have reached an epidemic level and state-level policy innovations have followed suit in an effort to prevent overdose deaths. State-level drug law is a set of policies that may reinforce or undermine each other, and analysts have a limited set of tools for handling the policy collinearity using statistical methods. This paper uses
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Combatting Opioid-Related Deaths in Rural Vermont Through Community Partnership [PDF]
, 2018 Substance abuse continues to be a public health crisis. With legislative changes and creation of MAT programming in Vermont, access to behavioral health services for substance abuse treatment has shifted community response and perceptions.
Waller, Brianna F
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Spatial Concentration of Opioid Overdose Deaths in Indianapolis: An Application of the Law of Crime Concentration at Place to a Public Health Epidemic [PDF]
, 2019 The law of crime concentration at place has become a criminological axiom and the foundation for one of the strongest evidence-based policing strategies to date.
Carter, Jeremy G. +2 more
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Availability and Cost of Naloxone Nasal Spray at Pharmacies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2017
JAMA Network Open, 2019 Key Points Question What is the availability of naloxone at pharmacies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3 years after the implementation of a statewide standing order in Pennsylvania allowing pharmacists to dispense naloxone without a prescription ...
Jenny S. Guadamuz +5 more
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