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Providing Mental Health and Substance Use Services to People Released From Custody During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Service Providers

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the perspectives of mental health and substance use providers who supported people released from custody during the pandemic in Ontario, Canada, with a focus on service disruptions, adaptations, and experiences. We conducted 20 in‐depth qualitative interviews and analysed these using Applied Thematic Analysis.
Lucas M. Seuren, Arthur McLuhan, Madison Ford, Nikoleta Curcin, Angela Mashford‐Pringle, Patricia O'Campo, Flora I. Matheson   +6 more
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Unemployment Insurance and Opioid Overdose Mortality in the United States.

Demography, 2022
Over the past two decades, opioid overdose deaths contributed to the dramatic rise in all-cause mortality among non-Hispanic Whites. To date, efforts among scholars to understand the role of local area labor market conditions on opioid overdose mortality
Pinghui Wu, M. Evangelist
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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.

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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Unemployment and opioid overdose death patterns in the United States from 2017 to 2019

Interdisciplinary Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health
Introduction: Unemployment has been linked to increased opioid-related harms such as opioid overdose deaths. Identifying hotspots and coldspots across the United States (US) can be crucial to understanding health resources and leveraging strategies ...
Rana Khafagy, Saranya Naraentheraraja, Aranee Sathiyamoorthy   +2 more
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Addressing in‐hospital substance use: A bioethical evaluation of two possible approaches

Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Up to 40% of patients with substance use disorder report using non‐prescribed drugs when hospitalized. In‐hospital substance (IHSU) use is associated with poor outcomes and raises safety concerns for healthcare providers. Despite its prevalence, little guidance exists regarding best practices in responding to IHSU.
John C. Messinger, Taylor Baisey, Johanna Sluser, Benjamin A. Barsky, Marlene Martin, Leslie W. Suen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2017–2018

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020
Of the 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, approximately two thirds (47,600) involved an opioid (1). In recent years, increases in opioid-involved overdose deaths have been driven primarily by deaths involving synthetic opioids ...
N. Wilson, Mbabazi Kariisa, P. Seth, Herschel Smith, N. Davis   +4 more
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Prevalence of novel psychoactive substances in selected clinical urine specimens submitted for drug monitoring

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) are compounds emerging as alternatives to more established drugs of abuse. They are constantly changing and being modified, which makes their detection difficult. The study objective was to determine the prevalence of NPS in selected clinical specimens. Deidentified urine specimen remnants were analyzed that
Jillian R. Neifeld, Theresa M. Meli, Sarah H. Bartock   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of California's naloxone co‐prescription law on emergency department visits, 30‐day mortality, and prescription patterns

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open
Objective Opioid overdose is a public health epidemic adversely impacting individuals and communities. To combat this, California passed a law mandating that prescribers offer a naloxone prescription in certain circumstances.
Ali Ghobadi, Michael Hanna, Stephanie Tovar, Duy H. Do, Lewei Duan, Ming‐Sum Lee, Elizabeth A. Samuels, Corey S. Davis, Adam L. Sharp   +8 more
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Benzodiazepine Use and Mortality Risk: A Nationwide Cohort Study on New Benzodiazepine Users With a 5‐Year Follow‐Up

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction We aimed to investigate the risks of all‐cause and cause‐specific mortality associated with dose‐dependent benzodiazepine and Z‐drug (BZDR) use in the Finnish population initiating new BZDR use with five‐year follow‐up. Methods Study subjects were included if BZDR use had started in 2006 with no BZDR dispensing during the ...
Hanna Särkilä, Heidi Taipale, Antti Tanskanen, Tero Taiminen, Reijo Sund, Terhi Kurko, Jarmo Hietala, Solja Niemelä   +7 more
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A call for action: Closing the evidence gap in management of stimulant‐induced psychosis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Stimulant‐induced psychosis (StIP) is emerging as one of most pressing health challenges. Over the past two decades, stimulant‐related harms and psychiatric care demands have risen sharply. Individuals with StIP often present with severe agitation and high suicide risk, and up to half progress to chronic psychotic illness within two
Anne Bouthillier, Heidar Sharafi, Adam Bisaga, Didier Jutras‐Aswad   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source