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Synthetic opioids have disrupted conventional wisdom for treating opioid overdose

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
More than 90 % of opioid overdose deaths in North America are now caused by synthetic opioids, and while they are not as prevalent in the European illicit drug market, there are indications that they may become so in the near future.
Phil Skolnick, Jordan Paavola, Christian Heidbreder   +2 more
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A conceptual model for understanding post-release opioid-related overdose risk

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2019
Post-release opioid-related overdose mortality is the leading cause of death among people released from jails or prisons (PRJP). Informed by the proximate determinants framework, this paper presents the Post-Release Opioid-Related Overdose Risk Model. It
Paul J. Joudrey, Maria R. Khan, Emily A. Wang, Joy D. Scheidell, E. Jennifer Edelman, D. Keith McInnes, Aaron D. Fox   +6 more
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Medication-assisted treatment and opioid use response to opioid overdose sentinel events [PDF]

, 2017
Introduction A nonfatal overdose due to opioids can be viewed as a failure to adequately treat addiction or as an opportunity to start or improve treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD).
Frazier, Winfred
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Local Responses to Limits on U.S. Public Health Authority During the COVID‐19 Emergency

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public health has become politicized in the U.S. Though research shows that limiting public health authority during emergency response puts community wellbeing and health outcomes at risk, during the COVID‐19 emergency (2020–2021), some U.S. state policymakers limited the disease‐preventing actions local public health agencies could take. This
Genevive R. Meredith, Xue Zhang, Zachary M. Batterman, Hannah M. Morris, Zhiwei Chen, Mah Liqa, Mildred E. Warner   +6 more
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Urine Screening for Opiod and Illicit Drugs in the Total Joint Arthroplasty Population [PDF]

, 2020
Introduction. Recent studies have shown an increase in post-operative orthopaedic complications associated with pre-operative opioid use. It is, therefore, important to know if patients use opioids before scheduled surgery.
Bhargava, Tarun, Messamore, William, Schmanke, Ken, Trent, Jesse, Vopat, Matthew, Yang, Shang-You, Zackula, Rosey   +6 more
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Assessing the 2004-2018 fentanyl misusing issues reported to an international range of adverse reporting systems [PDF]

, 2019
© 2019 Schifano, Chiappini, Corkery and Guirguis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Chiappini, Stephania, Corkery, John, Guirguis, Amira, Schifano, Fabrizio   +3 more
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Exploring the roles and impacts of pharmacists embedded in general practice: a scoping review

Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The role of the general practice pharmacist (GPP) in Australia is not yet clearly defined, and their clinical expertise remains underutilised in general practice settings. This may be attributed to a limited understanding of pharmacists' capabilities, which can hinder optimal GPP utilisation.
Christel Chandra, Brooke Bevis, Holly Foot, Nazanin Falconer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retrospective Evaluation of the Implementation of Universal Suicide Risk Screening for Youth in the Perioperative and Procedural Areas of a Health System

Pediatric Anesthesia, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Suicide is a leading cause of death among US youth. Universal suicide risk screening can identify youth with unmet mental health needs, enabling interventions and linkage to services, yet screening is not widely implemented in perioperative and procedural settings. Aims We retrospectively assessed implementation of universal suicide
Michelle Tsao, Arkadeep Ghosh, Amanda N. Burnside, Chunyi Wu, Matthew J. Rowland, Eric Cheon, Jennifer A. Hoffmann   +6 more
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Naloxone Administration Route in Opioid Overdose: A Review of Vermont EMS Data [PDF]

, 2017
Objective: Emergency Medical System (EMS) personnel administer the direct opioid antagonist naloxone in cases of opioid overdose via intramuscular (IM), intravenous (IV), subcutaneous (SQ), intraosseous (IO), or intranasal (IN) routes. Some early studies
LaMonda, Chris, MPH, O\u27Keefe, Michael, Sacco, Alden York, MPH, Trabulsy, Mario, MD, Wolfson, Daniel, MD   +4 more
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Ethanol reversal of tolerance to the respiratory depressant effects of morphine [PDF]

, 2015
Opioids are the most common drugs associated with unintentional drug overdose. Death results from respiratory depression. Prolonged use of opioids results in the development of tolerance but the degree of tolerance is thought to vary between different ...
A Fugelstad, A Fugelstad, Abi Lyndon, AJ Ruttenber, Anne Lingford-Hughes, AR Lingford-Hughes, B Levine, BM Mathers, CA Paronis, Chris Bailey, CK Kuo, CN Lessov, CP Bailey, CP Bailey, CP Bailey, E Kelly, E Valjent, Eamonn Kelly, EB Rex, EJ Waite, F Chen, FL Smith, FL Smith, Graeme Henderson, GS Ling, H Sakakibara, HW Matthes, HY Lin, I Rodriguez-Martin, J Llorente, J McPherson, J Reneau, JM White, Joanne Roberts, John MacLachlan, JT Williams, JW Lewis, KL McGilliard, L He, LC Hull, LC Saland, LJ Sim-Selley, LM Bohn, LQ Hong-Brown, M Aliczki, M Hickman, M Hickman, M Inoue, M Pierce, Matthew Hickman, N Quillinan, NG Shah, R Cornish, R Romberg, Rob Hill, S Darke, S Darke, S Kishioka, Sarah Withey, SJ Slater, SV Dighe, TC Green, Yvonne Kershaw   +62 more
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