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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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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Opioid Overdose Deaths: a Spatiotemporal Analysis

Journal of urban health, 2022
The effects of the opioid crisis have varied across diverse and socioeconomically defined urban communities, due in part to widening health disparities.
R. Ghose, A. Forati, John R Mantsch
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Treatment of opioid overdose: current approaches and recent advances

Psychopharmacology, 2022
The USA has recently entered the third decade of the opioid epidemic. Opioid overdose deaths reached a new record of over 74,000 in a 12-month period ending April 2021.
Stevie C. Britch, S. Walsh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Disparities by Sex and Race and Ethnicity in Death Rates Due to Opioid Overdose Among Adults 55 Years or Older, 1999 to 2019

JAMA Network Open, 2022
Key Points Question Is there variation by sex and by racial and ethnic subgroups in rates of opioid overdose deaths among older adults over time? Findings In this cross-sectional study of opioid overdose deaths in older adults from 1999 to 2019, 79 893 ...
Maryann Mason, Rebekah Soliman, Howard S. Kim, L. Post   +3 more
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Association Between Increased Dispensing of Opioid Agonist Therapy Take-Home Doses and Opioid Overdose and Treatment Interruption and Discontinuation.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2022
Importance During the COVID-19 pandemic, modified guidance for opioid agonist therapy (OAT) allowed prescribers to increase the number of take-home doses to promote treatment retention.
T. Gomes, Tonya J Campbell, S. Kitchen, Ria Garg, Nikki Bozinoff, Siyu Men, Mina Tadrous, C. Munro, T. Antoniou, D. Werb, Jennifer Wyman   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2017–2018

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020
Of the 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, approximately two thirds (47,600) involved an opioid (1). In recent years, increases in opioid-involved overdose deaths have been driven primarily by deaths involving synthetic opioids ...
N. Wilson, M. Kariisa, P. Seth, Herschel Smith, N. Davis   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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