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Management of Opioid Analgesic Overdose [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 2012 The rate of opioid analgesic overdose is proportional to the number of opioid prescriptions and the dose prescribed. This review considers the epidemiology, mechanisms, and management of opioid analgesic overdose.
Edoardo, Picetti +2 more
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New England Journal of Medicine, 2019 Prevention of Opioid Overdose This review explains harm-reduction strategies for three groups of patients: those who have not received previous opioid therapy, those receiving long-term opioid ther...
Kavita M. Babu +2 more
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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 +8 more
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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 +5 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 +4 more
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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 +2 more
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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 +8 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 +7 more
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41538 Characterizing Opioid Overdose Hotspots for Targeted Overdose Prevention and Treatment
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021 IMPACT: Identifying factors associated with opioid overdoses will enable better resource allocation in communities most impacted by the overdose epidemic.
Elizabeth A. Samuels +11 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 +29 more
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