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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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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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Unspecified opioids among opioid overdoses in Oslo, Norway
BMC Research Notes, 2022 Abstract Objective Since 2017, an increasing number of opioid overdoses in Oslo, Norway, has been categorized as involving unspecified opioids, as noted in the patient records by the doctor treating the patient. In this study we compare the characteristics of overdoses involving unspecified opioids, long-acting opioids ...
Zahra Zeineb Iqbal +3 more
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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 +8 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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Opioid Analgesic Prescribing Practices of Dental Professionals in the United States [PDF]
, 2017 The prescription of opioid analgesics by dental professionals is widespread in the United States. Policy makers, government agencies, and professional organizations consider this phenomenon a growing public health concern.
Okunseri, Christopher +4 more
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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 +11 more
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Psychiatry and the Opioid Overdose Crisis
Focus, 2019 For the third year in a row, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an unprecedented decline in life expectancy for the United States, a decline attributable mainly to drug overdose deaths and suicides. Drug overdoses have continued to rise and are now estimated to account for 70,237 deaths in 2017. The root causes of the modern opioid
Bertha K. Madras, Hilary S. Connery
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Firsthand Opiates Abuse on Social Media: Monitoring Geospatial Patterns of Interest Through a Digital Cohort [PDF]
, 2019 In the last decade drug overdose deaths reached staggering proportions in the US. Besides the raw yearly deaths count that is worrisome per se, an alarming picture comes from the steep acceleration of such rate that increased by 21% from 2015 to 2016 ...
Bajardi, Paolo +2 more
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Police Officer Attitudes towards Intranasal Naloxone Training [PDF]
, 2015 Background One approach to reduce fatal opioid overdose is by distributing naloxone to law enforcement officers. While several cities have implemented these naloxone programs, little research has investigated officer attitudes about their training ...
Kahre, Kailyn +2 more
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