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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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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman, Neehar Parikh, Dan J. Clauw, David A. Williams, Elliot B. Tapper   +4 more
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The association of criminal justice supervision setting with overdose mortality: a longitudinal cohort study. [PDF]

, 2020
Background and aimsDespite the high prevalence of substance use among people in the US criminal justice system, little is known about the incidence of overdose mortality by use patterns, drug convictions and supervision setting.
Anderson R. N., Aos S., Bronson J., Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Kaeble D., Kaeble D., Michigan Judicial Institute, National Center for Health Statistics, Zeng Z.   +8 more
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Opioid Prescribing Patterns Before Fatal Opioid Overdose [PDF]

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2020
Although opioid prescribing has decreased since 2010, overdose deaths involving illicit opioids have continued to rise. This study explores prescribing patterns before fatal overdose of decedents who died of prescription and illicit opioid overdoses.This retrospective cohort study was conducted in 2019 and included all 1,893 Illinois residents who died
Ali B, Abbasi, Elizabeth, Salisbury-Afshar, Craig E, Berberet, Jennifer E, Layden, Mai T, Pho   +4 more
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Associations with experience of non-fatal opioid overdose in British Columbia, Canada: a repeated cross sectional survey study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Introduction Lives lost in North America due to the unregulated drug poisoning emergency are preventable and those who survive an opioid overdose may suffer long-term disability. Rates of opioid overdose more than doubled following the onset of the COVID-
Max Ferguson, Paul Choisil, Jessica Lamb, Charlene Burmeister, Cheri Newman, Kurt Lock, Samuel Tobias, Lisa Liu, Jane A. Buxton   +8 more
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Urban scaling of opioid overdose deaths in the USA: a cross-sectional study in three periods between 2005 and 2017

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives To describe the association between population size, population growth and opioid overdose deaths—overall and by type of opioid—in US commuting zones (CZs) in three periods between 2005 and 2017.Settings 741 CZs covering the entirety of the US
Ana V Diez Roux, Usama Bilal, Pricila H Mullachery, Ran Li, Rosie Mae Henson, Stephen Lankenau   +5 more
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Association between recent overdose and chronic pain among individuals in treatment for opioid use disorder

PLoS ONE, 2022
Chronic pain increases risk for opioid overdose among individuals with opioid use disorder. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between recent overdose and whether or not chronic pain is active.
Sarah M. Hartz, Robert C. Culverhouse, Carrie M. Mintz, Matthew S. Ellis, Zachary A. Kasper, Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, Richard A. Grucza, Laura J. Bierut, Theodore J. Cicero   +8 more
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Opioid prescribing and opioid-overdose deaths in Michigan: Urban-rural comparisons and changes across 2013–2017

Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2020
Background: Opioid-overdose deaths and opioid prescriptions have increased substantially within the past decade, leading to examinations of urban-rural differences for these opioid-related outcomes, and whether annual trends differ by urban-rural status.
Jamey J. Lister, Jennifer D. Ellis, Miyoung Yoon   +2 more
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Evaluating the impact of a national naloxone programme on ambulance attendance at overdose incidents: a controlled time-series analysis [PDF]

, 2017
Background and Aims: It has been suggested that distributing naloxone to people who inject drugs (PWID) will lead to fewer attendances by emergency medical services at opioid-related overdose incidents if peer administration of naloxone was perceived ...
Ashworth, Becketti, Bennett, Bird, Box, Clark, Craig, Darke, Darke, Davoli, Jarosz, Knowlton, Lankenau, Lenton, Longo, McAuley, McAuley, McCain, Merchant, Merrall, Moore, Salmon, Seal, Shermann, Sporer, Strang, Walley, Weatherburn, World Health Organization (WHO), Wright   +29 more
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Opioid-overdose laws association with opioid use and overdose mortality [PDF]

Addictive Behaviors, 2018
Since the 1990's, governmental and non-governmental organizations have adopted several measures to increase access to the opioid overdose reversal medication naloxone. These include the implementation of laws that increase layperson naloxone access and overdose-specific Good Samaritan laws that protect those reporting overdoses from criminal sanction ...
Chandler McClellan, Barrot H. Lambdin, Mir M. Ali, Ryan Mutter, Corey S. Davis, Eliza Wheeler, Michael Pemberton, Alex H. Kral   +7 more
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