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State marijuana laws and opioid overdose mortality

Injury Epidemiology, 2019
Background The opioid epidemic in the United States is a national public health crisis. In recent years, marijuana legalization has been increasingly adopted by state governments as a policy intervention to control the opioid epidemic under the premise ...
Stanford Chihuri, Guohua Li
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Theorizing causality: A qualitative study of xylazine‐related wound diversity and perceived etiology among people who inject drugs

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Incidence and severity of opioid‐associated skin and soft‐tissue infections, often requiring intensive and costly medical care, have increased substantially since the emergence of xylazine in the US drug supply. Although progress has been made in clinical and harm reduction recommendations for treating xylazine‐related ...
Danielle German, Kelci Villarroel, Meredith Denney, Adrian Guta, Julie Evans, Jason Bienert, Alex Fidler, Kim Ashburn, Zach Kosinski, Becky L. Genberg   +9 more
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Discontinuation and tapering of prescribed opioids and risk of overdose among people on long-term opioid therapy for pain with and without opioid use disorder in British Columbia, Canada: A retrospective cohort study

PLoS Medicine, 2022
Background The overdose crisis in North America has prompted system-level efforts to restrict opioid prescribing for chronic pain. However, little is known about how discontinuing or tapering prescribed opioids for chronic pain shapes overdose risk ...
Mary Clare Kennedy, Alexis Crabtree, Seonaid Nolan, Wing Yin Mok, Zishan Cui, Mei Chong, Amanda Slaunwhite, Lianping Ti   +7 more
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Frequency and associated risk factors of non-fatal overdose reported by pregnant women with opioid use disorder

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2018
Background Little is known about opioid overdose or naloxone access among pregnant women. Objectives The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of non-fatal overdose, risk factors for overdose, and naloxone access among third trimester
Sarah M. Bagley, Howard Cabral, Kelley Saia, Alyssa Brown, Christine Lloyd-Travaglini, Alexander Y. Walley, Ruth Rose-Jacobs   +6 more
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Mayors and the health of cities [PDF]

, 2019
Mayors and the Health of Cities sheds light on how US mayors perceive and prioritize the health of their cities in the context of existing urban health data.
Godinez Puig, Luisa, Lusk, Katharine, Wang, Monica   +2 more
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Historical trends in self‐reported US heroin initiation

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Illegal opioids create challenges for public health and safety. There is imperfect understanding of when use of illegally manufactured opioids increased. This paper examined data on self‐reported year of first heroin use in the United States. Design Secondary analysis of general population survey data. Setting United States.
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Bishu Giri
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Temporal and geographical patterns of nitazene detections in drug samples and biospecimens in the United States, 2019–2024

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Nitazenes are a novel subclass of synthetic opioids that have been increasingly implicated in the United States (US) overdose crisis. Despite their growing presence in the illicit drug supply, national trends have not been systematically evaluated.
David T. Zhu, Nicole D. Fitzgerald, Joseph J. Palamar, Alex J. Krotulski   +3 more
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Trends in drug overdose deaths among adults 65 years of age and older in Canada (2000–2022)

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: Although young adults and middle-aged adults have borne the brunt of the drug overdose crisis in Canada, older adults are also at an increased risk of harms.
Sameer Imtiaz, Farihah Ali, Nat Kaminski, Cayley Russell, Jürgen Rehm   +4 more
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Incorporating Naloxone Education Into Routine Primary Care [PDF]

, 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
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Healthcare utilization and mortality after overdose prevention site closure: A linked cohort analysis using segmented difference‐in‐differences time series

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Evidence regarding the impacts of supervised drug consumption services (SDC) remains mixed, and few evaluations have used individual‐level, linkable health data to examine service withdrawal. In September 2024, the Red Deer overdose prevention site (OPS) in Alberta, Canada, was scheduled for closure, with operations ceasing
Nathaniel Day, Kym Kaufmann, Daniel John Alexander Devoe, Vanja Grubac, Alessia DiMarzo, Haisa Osmanli, Vanessa Norton, Shelly Vik, Nickie Mathew, Robert Lawrence Tanguay, Anees Bahji   +10 more
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