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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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Anesthesiology, 2023 Opioids are effective analgesics, but they can have harmful adverse effects, such as addiction and potentially fatal respiratory depression. Naloxone is currently the only available treatment for reversing the negative effects of opioids, including ...
Maarten A van Lemmen +10 more
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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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American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2023 Introduction: Opioid-involved overdose mortality is a persistent public health challenge, yet limited evidence exists on the relationship between opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment after non-fatal overdose and subsequent overdose death.
Hillary Samples +4 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
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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
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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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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 +3 more
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Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths—United States, 2000–2014
American Journal of Transplantation, 2016 The United States is experiencing an epidemic of drug overdose (poisoning) deaths. Since 2000, the rate of deaths from drug overdoses has increased 137%, including a 200% increase in the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids (opioid pain relievers ...
R. A. Rudd +3 more
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