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Development and validation of a risk-score model for opioid overdose using a national claims database

open access: yesScientific 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
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a Translational Model to Assess the Impact of Opioid Overdose and Naloxone Dosing on Respiratory Depression and Cardiac Arrest

open access: yesClinical pharmacology and therapy, 2022
In response to a surge of deaths from synthetic opioid overdoses, there have been increased efforts to distribute naloxone products in community settings.
J. Mann   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Bayesian Spatio-temporal Model to Optimize Allocation of Buprenorphine in North Carolina

open access: yesStatistics 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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Spatial Concentration of Opioid Overdose Deaths in Indianapolis: An Application of the Law of Crime Concentration at Place to a Public Health Epidemic [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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U.S. Military veterans and the opioid overdose crisis: a review of risk factors and prevention efforts

open access: yesAnnals medicus, 2022
U.S. military veterans have been heavily impacted by the opioid overdose crisis, with drug overdose mortality rates increasing by 53% from 2010–2019. Risk for overdose among veterans is complex and influenced by ongoing interaction among physiological ...
Alex S. Bennett   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

open access: yes, 2019
Alexander Tsai and co-authors discuss the role of stigma in responses to the US opioid ...
Barnett, Michael L   +9 more
core   +2 more sources

Real-world study of multiple naloxone administration for opioid overdose reversal among bystanders

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background The increasing prevalence of highly potent, illicitly manufactured fentanyl and its analogues (IMF) in the USA is exacerbating the opioid epidemic which has worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Randa Abdelal   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

State-Level Economic Costs of Opioid Use Disorder and Fatal Opioid Overdose — United States, 2017

open access: yesMMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2021
Approximately 47,000 persons in the United States died from an opioid-involved overdose in 2018 (1), and 2.0 million persons met the diagnostic criteria for an opioid use disorder in 2017 (2). The economic cost of the U.S.
Feijun Luo, Mengyao Li, C. Florence
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Case Report of a Novel Harm Reduction Intervention Used to Detect Opioid Overdose in the Emergency Department

open access: yesClinical 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
doaj   +1 more source

Disparities in Opioid Overdose Death Trends by Race/Ethnicity, 2018-2019, From the HEALing Communities Study.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objectives. To examine trends in opioid overdose deaths by race/ethnicity from 2018 to 2019 across 67 HEALing Communities Study (HCS) communities in Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts, and Ohio. Methods.
Marc R. Larochelle   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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