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Opioid overdose decedent characteristics during COVID-19

Annals of Medicine, 2022
Introduction Alongside the emergence of COVID-19 in the United States, several reports highlighted increasing rates of opioid overdose from preliminary data.
Gian-Gabriel P. Garcia, Erin J. Stringfellow, Catherine DiGennaro, Nicole Poellinger, Jaden Wood, Sarah Wakeman, Mohammad S. Jalali   +6 more
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Opioid overdose crises during the COVID-19 pandemic: implication of health disparities

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background Recent data suggest a disproportionate impact of opioid overdoses on Black Americans. The study aims to describe emergency department (ED) visits at a Southern, urban ED pertaining to opioid overdose and associated health disparities.
Ishika Patel, Lauren A. Walter, Li Li
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Impact of UNODC/WHO S-O-S (stop-overdose-safely) training on opioid overdose knowledge and attitudes among people at high or low risk of opioid overdose in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Introduction Opioid overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) is an evidence-based strategy to reduce opioid overdose deaths in line with guidance provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ...
Paul Dietze, Samantha Colledge-Frisby, Gilberto Gerra, Vladimir Poznyak, Giovanna Campello, Wataru Kashino, Dzhonbek Dzhonbekov, Tetiana Kiriazova, Danil Nikitin, Assel Terlikbayeva, Kirsten Horsburgh, Anja Busse, Dzmitry Krupchanka   +12 more
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Opioid overdose and naloxone administration knowledge and perceived competency in a probability sample of Indiana urban communities with large Black populations. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
BackgroundOpioid overdose deaths pose a serious public health concern in the United States, with disproportionately higher rates of increase among Black Americans despite expanded naloxone access.
Shin Hyung Lee, Jon Agley, Vatsla Sharma, Francesca Williamson, Pengyue Zhang, Dong-Chul Seo   +5 more
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The changing epidemiology of opioid overdose in Baltimore, Maryland, 2012–2017: insights from emergency medical services [PDF]

Annals of Medicine, 2022
Introduction An estimated 100,306 people died from an overdose from May 2020 to April 2021. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are often the first responder to opioid overdose, and EMS encounter records can provide granular epidemiologic data on opioid ...
Chen Dun, Sean T. Allen, Carl Latkin, Amy Knowlton, Brian W. Weir   +4 more
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Association Between Opioid Dosage Tapering and Opioid Overdose Among Long-Term Higher-Dose Opioid Users [PDF]

AJPM Focus
Introduction: There has been a steady decline in the national opioid-dispensing rate in recent years. However, emerging evidence that suggests that abrupt discontinuation of opioids for pain may increase overdose risk.
Hui Zhou, PhD, Katherine J. Pak, MS, Fagen Xie, PhD, Craig K. Chang, MD, Patricia L. Gray, PharmD, Deborah S. Ling-Grant, PhD, Joanna L. Barreras, PhD, MSW, Steven G. Steinberg, MD, Rulin C. Hechter, MD, PhD   +8 more
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Trends in pediatric prescription-opioid overdoses in U.S. emergency departments from 2008-2020: An epidemiologic study of pediatric opioid overdose ED visits.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundOpioid overdose was declared a public health emergency in the United States, but much of the focus has been on adults. Child and adolescent exposure and access to unused prescription-opioid medications is a big concern.
Audrey Lu, Megan Armstrong, Robin Alexander, Eurella Vest, Jonathan Chang, Motao Zhu, Henry Xiang   +6 more
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The role of increasing pharmacy and community distributed naloxone in the opioid overdose epidemic in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2022
Background: Naloxone distributed to people at risk for opioid overdose has been associated with reduced overdose death rates; however, associations of retail pharmacy-distributed naloxone with overdose mortality have not been evaluated.
Jake R. Morgan, Christina E. Freibott, Ali Jalali, Philip J. Jeng, Alexander Y. Walley, Avik Chatterjee, Traci C. Green, Michelle L. Nolan, Benjamin P. Linas, Brandon D.L. Marshall, Sean M. Murphy   +10 more
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The impact of opioid agonist treatment on fatal and non-fatal drug overdose among people with a history of opioid dependence in NSW, Australia, 2001-2018: findings from the OATS retrospective linkage study.

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objectives There are critical periods of mortality risk at onset and cessation of opioid agonist treatment. We aim to determine whether non-fatal overdose followed the same pattern as fatal overdose, comparing the first 4 weeks of treatment and ...
Nicola Jones, Louisa Degenhardt, Matthew Hickman, Suzanne Nielsen, Sarah Larney, Timothy Dobbins, Robert Ali   +6 more
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Evaluating the impact of naloxone dispensation at public health vending machines in Clark County, Nevada

Annals of Medicine, 2022
Introduction Implementing public health vending machines (PHVMs) is an evidence-based strategy for mitigating substance use-associated morbidity and mortality via the dispensation of essential supplies to people who use drugs, including overdose ...
Sean T. Allen, Allison O’Rourke, Jessica. A. Johnson, Chelsi Cheatom, Ying Zhang, Brandon Delise, Kellie Watkins, Kathleen Reich, Rick Reich, Cassius Lockett   +9 more
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