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Opioid Overdose—the Surgeon's Role

Annals of Surgery, 2018
With increased focus on the potential harms of surgical opioid prescribing, surgeons should be cognizant of the risk of opioid-related adverse events in their patients, including overdose. Risk factors for overdose may be more prevalent than surgeons think, and include high current opioid use, previous or existing substance ...
Joceline V, Vu, Lewei A, Lin
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Mechanisms of fatal opioid overdose

Addiction, 1999
There has been increasing recognition of the problem of fatal opioid overdose. This review examines the pharmacological basis of respiratory depression following opioid administration. Respiration is controlled principally through medullary respiratory centres with peripheral input from chemoreceptors and other sources.
White, J., Irvine, R.
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Intranasal Naloxone for Opioid Overdose

JAMA
This JAMA Insights describes indications for naloxone use in preventing opioid overdoses and benefits vs barriers to its availability following FDA approval of its availability without a prescription.
Jessica L, Taylor, Karen E, Lasser
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[Opioid overdose].

MMW Fortschritte der Medizin, 2019
Yngvild Olsen, Joshua M Sharfstein
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Opioid Overdoses in the United States

Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, 2012
The November 2011 issue of the online bulletin CDC Vital Signs posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Public Health Service entitled "Prescription Painkiller Overdoses in the U.S." addressed epidemiologic aspects of drug overdose deaths in the United States due to opioids.
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Containing the opioid overdose epidemic

BMJ, 2012
Michael McCarthy looks at moves in Washington State to stem the rise in prescription opioid ...
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Opioid overdose prevention

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 2015
Bratberg, Jeffrey, McLaughlin, Bill, Brewster, Scott   +2 more
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Opioid Abuse and Overdose

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 2015
Prescription drug misuse has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Given the magnitude of the problem, strategies to prevent initiation of prescription opioid misuse, treat existing opioid use disorders, and prevent overdose are of utmost importance.
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The Global Opioid Overdose Crisis

American Journal of Public Health, 2022
Kenneth Rochel, de Camargo, Farzana, Kapadia   +1 more
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Opioid Overdoses: A Webliography

Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 2018
Opioid drug overdose is currently the leading cause of death in the United States. An estimated 91 Americans die from opioid overdoses every day.
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