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“I don’t go to funerals anymore”: how people who use opioids grieve drug-related death in the US overdose epidemic

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Opioid-related overdose death is a public health epidemic in much of the USA, yet little is known about how people who use opioids (PWUO) experience overdose deaths in their social networks.
Allison V. Schlosser, Lee D. Hoffer
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Differential expression of NPAS4 in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex following opioid overdose

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2022
Background: Although preclinical models reveal the neurobiological pathways altered through opioid abuse, comprehensive assessments of gene expression in human brain samples are needed.
David W. Sosnowski, Andrew E. Jaffe, Ran Tao, Amy Deep-Soboslay, Chang Shu, Sarven Sabunciyan, Joel E. Kleinman, Thomas M. Hyde, Brion S. Maher   +8 more
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R.I. State Police Unveil Innovative Opioid Outreach Initiative at RWU [PDF]

, 2018
With 323 overdose deaths in 2017, Rhode Island is at the epicenter of the opioid ...
Public Affairs, Roger Williams University
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Predicting pharmacy naloxone stocking and dispensing following a statewide standing order, Indiana 2016 [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND: While naloxone, the overdose reversal medication, has been available for decades, factors associated with its availability through pharmacies remain unclear.
Agley, J.D., Davis, A., Gassman, R., Hoss, A., Jayawardene, W., Meyerson, B.E., Ritchie, K., Ryder, P.T., Shannon, D.J.   +8 more
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Opioid Overdose After Surgical Discharge [PDF]

JAMA, 2018
This pharmacoepidemiology study uses commercial claims database data to describe the rate of opioid overdose 1 to 3 months after surgical discharge by dose and procedure from 2004 to 2015.
Karim S, Ladha, Joshua J, Gagne, Elisabetta, Patorno, Krista F, Huybrechts, James P, Rathmell, Shirley V, Wang, Brian T, Bateman   +6 more
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Update of a Multivariable Opioid Overdose Risk Prediction Model to Enhance Clinical Care for Long-term Opioid Therapy Patients [PDF]

, 2023
Anh P. Nguyen, Jason M. Glanz, Komal J. Narwaney, Chan Zeng, Leslie Wright, Lane M. Fairbairn, Ingrid A. Binswanger   +6 more
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Modeling Supports Combinatorial Effects Between Pharmacological and Non‐Pharmacological Interventions to Prevent Opioid‐Induced Cardiac Arrest

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Few studies have quantified the effects of non‐pharmacological interventions (e.g., rescue breathing) in the setting of community opioid overdose. We extended a previously validated model for opioid antagonists by incorporating the mechanism of rescue breathing, and quantified combinatorial effects between rescue breathing and various formulations of ...
Bradlee Thrasher, John Mann, Anik Chaturbedi, Shilpa Chakravartula, Hamed Meshkin, Affan Affan, Alexander Galluppi, Ji Young Kim, Nigar Karimli, Yue Han, Zachary Dezman, Jeffry Florian, Zhihua Li   +12 more
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The changing epidemiology of opioid overdose in Baltimore, Maryland, 2012–2017: insights from emergency medical services

Annals of Medicine, 2022
Introduction An estimated 100,306 people died from an overdose from May 2020 to April 2021. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are often the first responder to opioid overdose, and EMS encounter records can provide granular epidemiologic data on opioid ...
Chen Dun, Sean T. Allen, Carl Latkin, Amy Knowlton, Brian W. Weir   +4 more
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The Opioid Crisis in Rural and Small Town America [PDF]

, 2018
In this brief, authors Shannon Monnat and Khary Rigg examine rural versus urban differences in opioid mortality and identify challenges for dealing with the opioid crisis in rural areas.
Monnat, Shannon M, Rigg, Khary K
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Harm reduction among injecting drug users - evidence of effectiveness [PDF]

, 2010
This chapter synthesises and evaluates the available direct evidence relating to the impact of needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid substitution treatment (OST), drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and peer naloxone distribution (PND) on HIV/hepatitis
Goldberg, David, Hickman, Matthew, Hutchinson, Sharon, Kimber, Jo, Palmateer, Norah, Rhodes, Tim   +5 more
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