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Illicit Opioid Intoxication: Diagnosis and Treatment
Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2011 Opioid intoxications and overdose are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Opioid overdose may occur in the setting of intravenous or intranasal heroin use, illicit use of diverted opioid medications, intentional or accidental misuse of
A. Fareed +5 more
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Behavioral intervention to reduce opioid overdose among high-risk persons with opioid use disorder: A pilot randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The United States is amidst an opioid epidemic, including synthetic opioids that may result in rapid death, leaving minimal opportunity for bystander rescue.
Phillip Oliver Coffin +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Opioid overdose can be serious adverse effects of opioid analgesics. Thus, several strategies to mitigate risk and reduce the harm of opioid overdose have been developed.
Kyu-Nam Heo, Ju-yeun Lee, Young-Mi Ah
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Preventing Prescription Opioid Overdose Deaths [PDF]
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2013 Over the past decade, the US has seen a rise in unintentional opioid overdose deaths that has mirrored a rise in the prescribing of opioids and misuse of these drugs. While this is largely an unintended consequence of our efforts to treat pain more aggressively, well-meaning efforts that focus solely on decreasing the prescribing of opioids may lead to
Darius A, Rastegar, Alexander Y, Walley
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AASLD practice guidance on drug, herbal, and dietary supplement–induced liver injury
, 2022 Hepatology, EarlyView.
Robert J. Fontana +6 more
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Modeling dynamics of fatal opioid overdose by state and across time
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2020 Opioid overdose fatalities include deaths from natural opioids (morphine and codeine), semi-synthetic opioids (oxycodone, hydrocodone), synthetic opioids (prescription and illicit fentanyl, tramadol), methadone, and heroin.
R. Lyle Cooper +10 more
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Spatial Concentration of Opioid Overdose Deaths in Indianapolis: An Application of the Law of Crime Concentration at Place to a Public Health Epidemic [PDF]
, 2019 The law of crime concentration at place has become a criminological axiom and the foundation for one of the strongest evidence-based policing strategies to date.
Carter, Jeremy G. +2 more
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Opioid Overdose With Parkinsonian Features [PDF]
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2019 A 54-year-old man presented to the emergency department with confusion and Parkinsonian features after suspected heroin snorting. He had magnetic resonance imaging of the brain demonstrating isolated symmetric bilateral globus pallidus (GP) restricted diffusion and edema consistent with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
Cohen, Paul, Hack, Jason B.
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Opioid overdose, interventions, and challenges
BioImpacts, 2022 This short letter briefly reviews the significance of opioid overdose as well as the existing approaches to combat the epidemic. It also signifies the importance of naloxone, its commercially available dosage forms, and the unmet need for developing safe and effective naloxone dosage forms that can easily be administered in emergency settings.
Samaneh Alaei, Hossein Omidian
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A Bayesian Spatio-temporal Model to Optimize Allocation of Buprenorphine in North Carolina
Statistics and Public Policy, 2023 The opioid epidemic is an ongoing public health crisis. In North Carolina, overdose deaths due to illicit opioid overdose have sharply increased over the last 5–7 years. Buprenorphine is a U.S.
Qianyu Dong +2 more
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