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Context, mechanisms and outcomes of a social enterprise model of residential rehabilitation for problem substance use: A realist‐informed process evaluation

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims This study evaluated a three‐year residential rehabilitation programme, which aimed to support recovery from problem substance use via peer support and social enterprise activities. The aims were to clarify programme mechanisms and identify contextual factors associated with variation in outcomes.
Martin Anderson, Lucy Pickering, Mark McCann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A call for compassionate opioid overdose response [PDF]

High dose and long-acting opioid overdose reversal drugs can precipitate withdrawal in people who are opioid dependent. Products recently brought to market for community use in the United States (US) have drawn international concern because of their ...
Schneider, Kristin E., Santamour, Tim, Murray, Stephen, Hawk, Mary, Bell, Alice, Jones, T. Stephen, Winograd, Rachel, Walley, Alexander Y., Russell, Erin, Neale, Joanne; id_orcid, Bennett, Alex S., Hill, Lucas G., Kestner, Lauren, Lieberman, Amy, Davis, Corey   +14 more
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Kansas prescription drug and opioid misuse and overdose strategic plan, 2018 : building a collaborative response to the crisis in Kansas

, 2018
"July 2018." Includes bibliographical reference."While Kansas is not experiencing the dramatic increase in opioid-related morbidity and mortality as compared to other states, it is a growing and emerging threat that requires state level preparedness ...
Kansas Prescription Drug and Opioid Advisory Committee.
core  

Charting the decline of the fourth wave: US overdose deaths by race, ethnicity and substance involvement

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims To characterize decreases in overdose death rates in the United States (US) between 2023 and 2024 by race/ethnicity, and substance involvement. Design Population‐based study of national death records accessed via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wide‐ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) platform ...
Joseph R. Friedman, Joseph J. Palamar, Daniel Ciccarone, Tommi L. Gaines, Annick Borquez, Chelsea L. Shover, Steffanie A. Strathdee   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The association between naloxone distribution, buprenorphine treatment and retention and incident high‐risk opioid prescribing with opioid overdose death in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio, United States: An exploratory community‐level cohort study of data from the HEALing Communities Study

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim We evaluated whether community‐level naloxone distribution, medication for opioid use disorder treatment and retention and incident high‐risk opioid prescribing rates were associated with opioid overdose death rates. Design Observational cohort conducted using 2019 to 2023 community‐level data as an exploratory analysis of the HEALing ...
Alexander Y. Walley, Debbie M. Cheng, Nathan Vandergrift, Marc Larochelle, JaNae Holloway, Jennifer L. Brown, Redonna Chandler, Laura C. Fanucchi, Daniel J. Feaster, Patricia R. Freeman, Timothy Hunt, Michelle R. Lofwall, Hannah K. Knudsen, Edward V. Nunes, Emmanuel Oga, Douglas R. Oyler, Jeffrey H. Samet, Jennifer Villani, Sharon L. Walsh, T. John Winhusen   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Characteristics of deaths due to drug‐related causes among individuals recently released from prison in the United Kingdom, 1997–2025

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims There has been an extensive literature describing the elevated risk of drug‐related death following an individual's release from prison; however, few previous studies have reported nationally representative samples or provided granular detail as to which individual drugs were deemed implicated in death.
Emmert Roberts, John Strang, Caroline Copeland   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Compiling Comprehensive Databases for Opioid Overdose Monitoring in a Fragmented Health Care System. [PDF]

Health Serv Res
Health Services Research, Volume 61, Issue 3, June 2026.
Hodgkin D, Green TC.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Barriers and facilitators to detoxification from opioid substitution treatment: A mixed‐methods systematic review

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Despite the well‐documented benefits of opioid substitution treatment (OST) in treating opioid dependence (OD), many people diagnosed with OD desire to live a drug‐free life. The transition to abstinence involves detoxification: a gradual dose reduction of OST to zero milligrams.
Amy Bagshaw, Suleyman Shah, India Olchefske, Louise M. Paterson, Mike J. Crawford, Anne Lingford‐Hughes   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

County-level factors associated with a mismatch between opioid overdose mortality and availability of opioid treatment facilities.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundOpioid overdose deaths in the United States remain a major public health crisis. Little is known about counties with high rates of opioid overdose mortality but low availability of opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment facilities.
John G Rizk, Jannat Saini, Kyungha Kim, Uzma Pathan, Danya M Qato   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source