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Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response. [PDF]

, 2019
Alexander Tsai and co-authors discuss the role of stigma in responses to the US opioid ...
Barnett, Michael L, Beletsky, Leo, Keyes, Katherine M, Kiang, Mathew V, McGinty, Emma E, Smith, Laramie R, Strathdee, Steffanie A, Tsai, Alexander C, Venkataramani, Atheendar S, Wakeman, Sarah E   +9 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, Josiah D, Rich, Alexander Y, Walley   +2 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, Sage J. Kim, PhD   +1 more
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Concentrated burdens: how self-interest and partisanship shape opinion on opioid treatment policy [PDF]

, 2019
When does self-interest influence public opinion on contentious public policies? The bulk of theory in political science suggests that self-interest is only a minor force in public opinion.
De Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Hankinson, Michael   +1 more
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A Case Report of a Novel Harm Reduction Intervention Used to Detect Opioid Overdose in the Emergency Department

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, Saloni Malik, Andrea Blome, Joseph L. D’Orazio   +3 more
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Opioid Dosage Levels, Concurrent Risk Factors and Self-Perceptions among Chronic Pain, Opioid-Managed Individuals at Elevated Risk for Opioid Overdose

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, Zachary A. Kasper, Mark Gold, Theodore J. Cicero   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Rebecca R. Porter, Amanda L. Zöld, Heather Terhorst-Miller   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, A Kolodny, AM Ertugrul, DS Burke, H Jalal, M Pierce, M Warner, NB King, PJ Gruenewald, R Hammersley, RA Rudd, S Hochreiter, S Scardapane, T Bennett, T Seddon   +14 more
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No obvious effect on mortality from a patient choice reform expanding access to opioid disorder treatment – results from a natural experiment of policy change in Sweden

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, Sahar Janfada-Baloo, Jonas Berge   +2 more
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Factors associated with opioid overdose during medication-assisted treatment: How can we identify individuals at risk?

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background Due to the loss of tolerance to opioids during medication-assisted treatment (MAT), this period may represent a time of heightened risk for overdose.
Vivian Y. O. Au, Tea Rosic, Nitika Sanger, Alannah Hillmer, Caroul Chawar, Andrew Worster, David C. Marsh, Lehana Thabane, Zainab Samaan   +8 more
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