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An experimental investigation of federal messaging on public support for enforcement- and treatment-based approaches for opioid overdose prevention in South Carolina. [PDF]

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Opioid Overdose

MMW Fortschritte der Medizin, 2019
What affects the risk of opioid overdose? Several factors influence the risk of overdose from opioids, including a person’s level of tolerance; the amount, potency, and type of the opioid taken; age; other medical conditions; and the presence of other sedating substances or medications....
Yngvild Olsen, Joshua M. Sharfstein
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Opioid Overdose

2023
Abstract Opioids are responsible for the largest number of drug overdoses. A multipronged approach is needed to dramatically change the course of this public health crisis. This chapter focuses on harm-reduction interventions with an emphasis on Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND), including a brief historical overview of
Jermaine D. Jones, Rachel R. Luba, Mudassir Mumtaz, Felipe Castillo   +3 more
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Opioid overdoses: Emerging clinical challenges

Journal of Opioid Management, 2020
Objective: Analysis of a large consecutive case series of cases brought to an Emergency Department (ED).Design: Retrospective chart review.Setting: Emergency Department in Broward County, Florida.Patients: Medical records of patients with registered diagnoses of opioid overdose in 2016 and 2017.Outcomes: Demographics, toxicology results, mental-health ...
Andrea, Ramos, Lina, Sarmiento, Noella, Dietz, Nelson, Cordero, Ximena, Levy, Charles H, Hennekens   +5 more
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Opioid overdose detection using smartphones

Science Translational Medicine, 2019
A commodity smartphone is converted into a contactless monitor that uses active sonar to detect opioid overdose and its precursors.
Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Shyamnath Gollakota, Jacob E. Sunshine   +2 more
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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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Olanzapine Overdose Mimicking Opioid Intoxication

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1999
We report significant central nervous system depression and the previously unreported phenomenon of pupillary constriction after acute overdose of olanzapine (Zyprexa) in 4 patients. Phase 2 trials describe a typically benign course in overdose, and published abstracts note a wide spectrum of clinical effects with supratherapeutic ingestion of ...
G F, O'Malley, S, Seifert, K, Heard, F, Daly, R C, Dart   +4 more
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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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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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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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