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Naloxone dosage for opioid reversal: current evidence and clinical implications
Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety, 2018 Opioid-related mortality is a growing problem in the United States, and in 2015 there were over 33,000 opioid-related deaths. To combat this mortality trend, naloxone is increasingly being utilized in a pre-hospital setting by emergency personnel and ...
Rachael Rzasa Lynn, J. Galinkin
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Addiction, 2020 BACKGROUND AND AIMS Naloxone access laws (NALs) have been suggested as an important strategy to reduce opioid-related harm. We describe the evolution of NALs across states and over time and review existing evidence of their overall association with ...
Rosanna Smart, Bryce Pardo, C. Davis
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Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Within Syringe Service Programs — United States, 2019
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020 Syringe service programs (SSPs), which provide access to sterile syringes and other injection equipment and their safe disposal after use,* represent a highly successful human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention intervention. SSPs are associated with
B. Lambdin +6 more
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Reducing drug related deaths : a pre-implementation assessment of knowledge,barriers and enablers for naloxone distribution through general practice [PDF]
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A McAuley +26 more
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Opiate users' knowledge about overdose prevention and naloxone in New York City: a focus group study
Harm Reduction Journal, 2006 Background Drug-induced and drug-related deaths have been increasing for the past decade throughout the US. In NYC, drug overdose accounts for nearly 900 deaths per year, a figure that exceeds the number of deaths each year from homicide.
Galea Sandro +3 more
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JAMA Internal Medicine, 2019 Importance Given high rates of opioid-related fatal overdoses, improving naloxone access has become a priority. States have implemented different types of naloxone access laws (NALs) and there is controversy over which of these policies, if any, can curb
Rahi Abouk, R. Pacula, David Powell
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Drug and Alcohol Review, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 203-212, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Introduction People receiving opioid agonist treatment (OAT) are at higher risk of comorbidities, poverty and discrimination, which Big Events like the COVID‐19 pandemic may exacerbate. The behaviours of people receiving OAT do not always align with normative behaviours as conceived by ruling institutions and laws, and so the group becomes a ...
Anna Conway +4 more
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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2015 IMPORTANCE Opioid-dependent patients often use the emergency department (ED) for medical care. OBJECTIVE To test the efficacy of 3 interventions for opioid dependence: (1) screening and referral to treatment (referral); (2) screening, brief ...
G. D'Onofrio +7 more
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Method for Successfully Inducting Individuals Who Use Illicit Fentanyl Onto Buprenorphine/Naloxone.
American Journal on Addictions, 2020 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Individuals exposed to fentanyl are at risk of precipitated withdrawal using typical buprenorphine/naloxone induction procedures.
Denis G. Antoine +6 more
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Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023 People who use drugs (PWUD) are the most directly affected by the overdose epidemic. However, they are not often targets of overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) programs.
Michael Enich +7 more
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