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Top 10 Public Health Challenges in 2025: Lessons and Priorities for 2025–2030

Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT By 2025, global public health will be shaped by interconnected and intensifying threats that demand coordinated international action. Ten key public health challenges were identified and examined. This perspective reviews the challenges that shaped 2025 and the priorities set for the period 2025–2030, using evidence available up to July 2026 ...
Don Eliseo Lucero Prisno III, Mohamed Mustaf Ahmed, Zhinya Kawa Othman, Rahmatullah Nazari, Uthman Okikiola Adebayo, Olalekan John Okesanya, Shuaibu Saidu Musa, Francesco Branda, Abdullahi Hassan Elmi, Jerico Bautista Ogaya   +9 more
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A Bayesian Multi‐State Data Integration Approach for Estimating County‐Level Prevalence of Opioid Misuse in the United States

Statistics in Medicine, Volume 45, Issue 20-22, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Drug overdose deaths, including from opioids, remain a significant public health threat to the United States (US). To abate the harms of opioid misuse, understanding its prevalence at the local level is crucial for stakeholders in communities to develop response strategies that effectively use limited resources.
Zixuan Feng, Qiushi Chen, Paul Griffin, Le Bao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility of paying people who use drugs cash to distribute naloxone within their networks

Harm Reduction Journal
Introduction Immediate access to naloxone is needed to prevent fatal opioid-related overdoses in the presence of fentanyl analogs saturating the opioid supply. Peer models engage impacted populations who are not accessing naloxone through standard venues,
Nikki M. Lewis, Rebecca P. Smeltzer, Trevor J. Baker, Andrea C. Sahovey, Justine Baez, Erika Hensel, Brandon Poole, Cecelia Stewart, Allyson G. Cogan, Mackenzie Bullard, Jessica L. Taylor   +10 more
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Management of Pain in the Intensive Care Unit: A Nordic Survey

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, Volume 70, Issue 8, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Pain is common in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with up to one‐third experiencing pain at rest and even more during mobilization and clinical procedures. This survey aimed to explore physicians' attitudes and preferences regarding pain management in adult ICU patients in the Nordic countries.
Benedikte Kollerup Madsen, Morten Hylander Møller, Stine Estrup, Lone Musaeus Poulsen, Bodil Steen Rasmussen, Kirstine Sylvester Conradsen, Thomas Lass Klitgaard, Asger Granfeldt, Theis Skovsgaard Itenov, Hans Christian Thorsen Meyer, Signe Tellerup Nielsen, Susanne Andi Iversen, Klaus Tjelle Kristiansen, Morten Heiberg Bestle, Kirsten Møller, Peter Hasse Møller Sørensen, Jeppe Veien Nygaard, Kristian Elgaard, Morten Rune Blichfeldt‐Eckhardt, Ann Christine Waarkjær Olsen, Mette Pedersen, Henrik Westy Hoffmeyer, Peter Martin Hansen, Helle Bundgaard, Marcus Ølgaard Møller, Jarl Sigaard, Kim Zillo Rokamp, Anne Craveiro Brøchner, Christoffer Sølling, Mika Valtonen, Anna‐Maria Kuivalainen, Annukka Vahtera, Stepani Bendel, Martin I. Sigurdsson, Per Martin Bådstøløkken, Fredrik Sjövall, Ole Mathiesen, Lars Peter Kloster Andersen   +37 more
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A call for action: Closing the evidence gap in management of stimulant‐induced psychosis

Addiction, Volume 121, Issue 9, Page 2275-2283, September 2026.
Abstract Background Stimulant‐induced psychosis (StIP) is emerging as one of most pressing health challenges. Over the past two decades, stimulant‐related harms and psychiatric care demands have risen sharply. Individuals with StIP often present with severe agitation and high suicide risk, and up to half progress to chronic psychotic illness within two
Anne Bouthillier, Heidar Sharafi, Adam Bisaga, Didier Jutras‐Aswad   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prescribing naloxone for opioid overdose intervention

, 2018
To provide an update on prescription of naloxone as a harm-reduction strategy, PubMed was searched to identify publications relevant to naloxone prescribing for reversal of opioid overdose.
Robert B Dunne
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Drug sellers' use of a drug checking service amid the overdose crisis in British Columbia, Canada

Addiction, Volume 121, Issue 9, Page 2470-2481, September 2026.
Abstract Aims This study examined the use of a drug checking service by drug sellers in British Columbia, Canada, to assess motivations for service use and substances intended for distribution, focusing on risks associated with an unstable illicit drug market.
Pablo Gonzalez‐Nieto, Bruce Wallace, Collin Kielty, Irene Shkolnikov, Ava Margolese, Jaime Arredondo Sanchez Lira, Chris Gill, Dennis Hore   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Widening the availability of naloxone. [PDF]

, 2015
Naloxone is the emergency antidote for overdoses caused by heroin and other opiates/opioids (such as methadone and morphine). The main life-threatening effect of heroin and other opiates is to slow down and stop breathing. Naloxone blocks this effect and

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Context, mechanisms and outcomes of a social enterprise model of residential rehabilitation for problem substance use: A realist‐informed process evaluation

Addiction, Volume 121, Issue 9, Page 2414-2423, September 2026.
Abstract Background and aims This study evaluated a three‐year residential rehabilitation programme, which aimed to support recovery from problem substance use via peer support and social enterprise activities. The aims were to clarify programme mechanisms and identify contextual factors associated with variation in outcomes.
Martin Anderson, Lucy Pickering, Mark McCann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Charting the decline of the fourth wave: US overdose deaths by race, ethnicity and substance involvement

Addiction, Volume 121, Issue 9, Page 2552-2558, September 2026.
Abstract Aims To characterize decreases in overdose death rates in the United States (US) between 2023 and 2024 by race/ethnicity, and substance involvement. Design Population‐based study of national death records accessed via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wide‐ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) platform ...
Joseph R. Friedman, Joseph J. Palamar, Daniel Ciccarone, Tommi L. Gaines, Annick Borquez, Chelsea L. Shover, Steffanie A. Strathdee   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source