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Effects of pharmacist-driven protocol on naloxone prescribing rates in two primary care clinics
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain recommend co-prescribing naloxone as a harm reduction strategy when there is an increased risk of opioid overdose.
Ashley Daffron +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Expanding access to the opioid antagonist naloxone to reduce overdose mortality is a public health priority in the United States. Naloxone standing orders (NSOs) have been established in many states to increase naloxone dispensing at ...
Susannah Slocum +4 more
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Pharmacy, 2022 The number of opioid-related deaths in Canada has steadily increased since 2016 and the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened this trend. Naloxone has been pivotal for reducing opioid-related harms and death, and pharmacists play a crucial role in ensuring the ...
Ashley Cid +5 more
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Implementation Science, 2023 Background More than half a million Americans died of an opioid-related overdose between 1999 and 2020, the majority occurring between 2015 and 2020. The opioid overdose mortality epidemic disproportionately impacts Black, Indigenous, and people of color
Christopher F. Akiba +8 more
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Differential Changes in Expression of Stress- and Metabolic-related Neuropeptides in the Rat Hypothalamus during Morphine Dependence and Withdrawal [PDF]
, 2013 Chronic morphine treatment and naloxone precipitated morphine withdrawal activates stress-related brain circuit and results in significant changes in food intake, body weight gain and energy metabolism.
Nunez, Cristina +13 more
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PLACENTAL TRANSFER OF NALOXONE [PDF]
British Journal of Anaesthesia, 1986 Maternal and umbilical venous serum naloxone concentrations were measured after the i.v. (30 mothers) or i.m. (seven mothers) injection of naloxone 400 micrograms. Following i.v. naloxone there was rapid transfer to the fetus and therapeutic plasma concentrations could be expected in 1 or 2 min. However, following i.m.
B M, Hibbard, M, Rosen, D, Davies
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Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2023 Background: Expanding access to naloxone is one of the most impactful interventions in decreasing opioid-related mortality. However, state distribution rates of naloxone are insufficient to meet community need.
Robert M. Bohler +12 more
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Should we be routinely co-prescribing naloxone for patients on long term opioids?
, 2021 Community naloxone supply to prevent fatal overdose needs to consider patients using pharmaceutical ...
Nielsen, Suzanne, Prathivadi, Pallavi
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Police officer knowledge of and attitudes to opioid overdose and naloxone administration: an evaluation of police training in Scotland [PDF]
In the context of escalating drug-related deaths, during 2021 Police Scotland implemented a pilot project incorporating naloxone training to test the carriage and administration of naloxone by officers. The current paper presents data from the evaluation
Dougall, Nadine J. +9 more
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Characteristics of and Experience Among People Who Use Take-Home Naloxone in Skåne County, Sweden
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundOpioid overdose related injury or death can be prevented by bystander naloxone administration. For naloxone to be present when and where overdoses occur, opioid prevention education and naloxone distribution (OPEND) must be established on a ...
Katja Troberg +8 more
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