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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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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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Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2020 Introduction: As over 130 people die daily from opioid overdose in the United States, harm reduction strategies have become increasingly important.
Kraftin E. Schreyer +3 more
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Prevention of Fatal Opioid Overdose [PDF]
JAMA, 2012 Opioid overdose is a burgeoning public health crisis, accounting for at least 16 000 deaths annually in the United States.1 Opioid overdose occurs across sex, ethnic, age, and geographic strata and involves both medical and nonmedical opioid use. To date, federal government response has focused primarily on monitoring and securing the drug supply.1 ...
Leo, Beletsky +2 more
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Preventing opioid overdose with peer-administered naloxone: findings from a rural state
Harm Reduction Journal, 2020 Background In response to the opioid epidemic, naloxone distribution programs aim to prevent overdose death by making naloxone available and training people to use it.
Bridget L. Hanson +3 more
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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2023 Background Opioid-related overdose deaths remain a common cause of death in many settings, and opioid maintenance treatment is evidence-based for the treatment of opioid use disorders.
Anders Håkansson +2 more
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Pharmaceuticals, 2021 While current opioid prescribing guidelines highlight a dose-response relationship between therapeutic management and overdose risk, other concurrent risk factors have also been identified.
Matthew S. Ellis +3 more
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic, Social Vulnerability, and Opioid Overdoses in Chicago
AJPM Focus, 2023 Introduction: This research was undertaken to examine the individual and neighborhood drivers that contributed to increases in opioid overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Randall W. Knoebel, PharmD, MPH +1 more
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CASTNet: Community-Attentive Spatio-Temporal Networks for Opioid Overdose Forecasting
, 2019 Opioid overdose is a growing public health crisis in the United States. This crisis, recognized as "opioid epidemic," has widespread societal consequences including the degradation of health, and the increase in crime rates and family problems.
A Kennedy-Hendricks +14 more
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