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Association of Take-Home Naloxone and Opioid Overdose Reversals Performed by Patients in an Opioid Treatment Program

open access: yesJAMA Network Open, 2020
Key Points Question Is there a benefit associated with take-home naloxone for overdose reversals supplied to patients who are receiving treatment for opioid use disorder?
Joanna G. Katzman   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards Better Opioid Antagonists Using Deep Reinforcement Learning [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
Naloxone, an opioid antagonist, has been widely used to save lives from opioid overdose, a leading cause for death in the opioid epidemic. However, naloxone has short brain retention ability, which limits its therapeutic efficacy. Developing better opioid antagonists is critical in combating the opioid epidemic.Instead of exhaustively searching in a ...
arxiv  

Public Perceptions of Community Pharmacy-Based Naloxone Services: A National Cross-Sectional Survey

open access: yesPharmacy, 2022
Little is known about the general public’s perceptions regarding community pharmacist-delivered naloxone services at the national level. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to describe the US general public’s awareness, knowledge, beliefs, comfort,
Lindsey A. Hohmann   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Naloxone Administration Route in Opioid Overdose: A Review of Vermont EMS Data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Objective: Emergency Medical System (EMS) personnel administer the direct opioid antagonist naloxone in cases of opioid overdose via intramuscular (IM), intravenous (IV), subcutaneous (SQ), intraosseous (IO), or intranasal (IN) routes. Some early studies
LaMonda, Chris, MPH   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Analgesic effectiveness and tolerability of oral oxycodone/naloxone and pregabalin in patients with lung cancer and neuropathic pain. An observational analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
INTRODUCTION: Cancer-related pain has a severe negative impact on quality of life. Combination analgesic therapy with oxycodone and pregabalin is effective for treating neuropathic cancer pain.
Borghesi, Cristina   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Naloxone dosing in the era of ultra-potent opioid overdoses: a systematic review.

open access: yesCJEM, 2020
OBJECTIVES Evaluate the relationship between naloxone dose (initial and cumulative) and opioid toxicity reversal and adverse events in undifferentiated and presumed fentanyl/ultra-potent opioid overdoses.
J. Moe   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Predicting OCT2/MATEs‐Mediated Drug Interactions in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: Insights from Extended Clearance Concept, Endogenous Biomarkers, and In Vitro Inhibition Studies (Perspectives from the International Transporter Consortium)

open access: yesClinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Organic cation transporter (OCT) 2 and multidrug and toxin extrusion (MATE) transporters play significant roles in the renal secretion of organic cations and drug–drug interactions (DDIs). Recent in vitro studies indicate that the Ki values for OCT2 exhibit substrate dependency and increase in potency with pre‐incubation.
Satoshi Asano   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

UHPLC‐QTOFMS Urine Drug Screening With Dilute‐and‐Shoot Sample Preparation and Vacuum‐Insulated Probe‐Heated Electrospray Ionization

open access: yesDrug Testing and Analysis, EarlyView.
The new ionization technique, vacuum‐insulated probe‐heated electrospray, allows for a simple dilute‐and‐shoot sample preparation to be used with liquid chromatography time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry in urine drug screening. Comparison with a method relying on solid‐phase extraction and conventional electrospray ionization shows improved performance ...
Mira Sundström   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Use of nebulized naloxone to reverse methadone overdose – A case report and review of literature

open access: yesJournal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2019
Opioid use is a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality in the USA. We report a case of methadone overdose reversed with naloxone nebulization. Peripheral IV access can be difficult to obtain in patients with a history of IV drug abuse making needless ...
Muhammad Sameed, Heidi Teague
doaj   +1 more source

Incorporating Naloxone Education Into Routine Primary Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Opioid overdoses are a growing public health concern in Vermont and nationwide. Naloxone can save the life of someone who overdoses, if those around them know how to use it.
Goldberg, Eli
core   +1 more source

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