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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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When effects cannot be estimated: redefining estimands to understand the effects of naloxone access laws [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Violations of the positivity assumption (also called the common support condition) challenge health policy research, and can result in significant bias, large variance, and invalid inference. We define positivity in the single- and multiple-timepoint (i.e., longitudinal) health policy evaluation setting, and discuss real-world threats to positivity. We
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American Journal of Public Health, 2020 Objectives. To examine early impacts of laws that require naloxone to be prescribed to patients at increased overdose risk.Methods. Using data from 2014 to 2018 from a large pharmacy chain, CVS Pharmacy, we examined the effects of naloxone-prescribing ...
Traci C. Green +4 more
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Vital Signs: Pharmacy-Based Naloxone Dispensing — United States, 2012–2018
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2019 Background The CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain recommends considering prescribing naloxone when factors that increase risk for overdose are present (e.g., history of overdose or substance use disorder, opioid dosages ≥50 morphine ...
G. Guy +5 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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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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Opioid overdoses following use of cocaine and methamphetamine in New South Wales, and the public health responses. [PDF]
Emerg Med AustralasBetween January 2022 and June 2024 in NSW, 34 cases of opioid toxidrome following the use of cocaine or methamphetamine were identified. This prompted two public drug warnings and media releases as part of the public health responses, and ongoing monitoring and reporting is required.
Chisholm P +6 more
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BJPsych Open, 2023 AimsThe aim of this audit was to look into the services’ fidelity of Naloxone provision and training across the Essex wide area compared with local guidelines as well as national guidelines (UK guidelines on clinical management of drug misuse and dependence, 2017)MethodsThe electronic records database for substance misuse services (THESEUS) was used ...
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Evaluating the impact of a national naloxone programme on ambulance attendance at overdose incidents: a controlled time-series analysis [PDF]
, 2017 Background and Aims: It has been suggested that distributing naloxone to people who inject drugs (PWID) will lead to fewer attendances by emergency medical services at opioid-related overdose incidents if peer administration of naloxone was perceived ...
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Addiction, 2016 Background and Aims Fatal outcome of opioid overdose, once detected, is preventable through timely administration of the antidote naloxone. Take‐home naloxone provision directly to opioid users for emergency use has been implemented recently in more than
Rebecca McDonald, J. Strang
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