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Determinants of overdose incidents among illicit opioid users in 5 Canadian cities [PDF]

, 2004
Background: Drug overdose is a major cause of death and illness among illicit drug users. Previous research has indicated that most illicit drug users experience nonfatal overdoses and has suggested a variety of factors that are associated with risk of ...
Noel, L, Brochu, Serge, Bruneau, J, Brissette, Suzanne, Brissette, S, Haydon, Emma, Noel, Lina, Rehm, Jürgen, Wild, C, Wild, Cameron, Brochu, S, Tyndall, Mark, Baliunas, Dolly, Fischer, Benedikt, Baliunas, D, Tyndall, M, Haydon, E, El-Guebaly, N, Rehm, J, Bruneau, Julie, Mun, P, el-Gueb, Nady, Mun, Phil   +22 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, Rebecca R. Porter, Amanda L. Zöld, Heather Terhorst-Miller   +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
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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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Opioid prescriptions for pain and epidemic of overdose death: can the dramatic reduction in anesthesia mortality serve as an example? [PDF]

, 2016
Igor Kissin Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Abstract: The annual number of US deaths from prescription-opioid overdose quadrupled between 1999
Kissin, Igor, Kissin I
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Opioid-related overdose and chronic use following an initial prescription of hydrocodone versus oxycodone.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundHydrocodone and oxycodone are prescribed commonly to treat pain. However, differences in risk of opioid-related adverse outcomes after an initial prescription are unknown.
Scott G Weiner, Michelle A Hendricks, Sanae El Ibrahimi, Grant A Ritter, Sara E Hallvik, Christi Hildebran, Roger D Weiss, Edward W Boyer, Diana P Flores, Lewis S Nelson, Peter W Kreiner, Michael A Fischer   +11 more
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Impact of UNODC/WHO S-O-S (stop-overdose-safely) training on opioid overdose knowledge and attitudes among people at high or low risk of opioid overdose in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine

Harm Reduction Journal
Introduction Opioid overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) is an evidence-based strategy to reduce opioid overdose deaths in line with guidance provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ...
Paul Dietze, Samantha Colledge-Frisby, Gilberto Gerra, Vladimir Poznyak, Giovanna Campello, Wataru Kashino, Dzhonbek Dzhonbekov, Tetiana Kiriazova, Danil Nikitin, Assel Terlikbayeva, Kirsten Horsburgh, Anja Busse, Dzmitry Krupchanka   +12 more
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Perspectives of opioid users on overdose recognition, naloxone administration, and attitudes

Industrial Psychiatry Journal
Background: There has been a rise in opioid overdose deaths, despite harm reduction efforts like naloxone distribution. Naloxone is effective but underused due to knowledge gaps and stigma.
Rajnish Raj, Shaheena Parveen, Sajid Mohammad Wani, Zaid Ahmad Wani, Yasir Hassan Rather, Inaamul Haq   +5 more
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The role of concomitant drugs in the aetiology of fatal heroin- and methadone- related overdose [PDF]

, 2008
Heroin and methadone poisoning are significant causes of death of young people in the United Kingdom. In a high proportion of these fatalities concomitant substances are also detected.
Oliver, Phillip
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