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Overdose from Unintentional Fentanyl Use when Intending to Use a Non-opioid Substance: An Analysis of Medically Attended Opioid Overdose Events

Journal of urban health
Fentanyl-mixed and substituted heroin is well-documented, but less is known about unintentional fentanyl use among people using stimulants. To determine the prevalence of and racial and ethnic disparities in unintentional fentanyl use among people ...
Alexander R. Bazazi, Patrick Low, Bryson O. Gomez, Hannah R. Snyder, Jeffrey K. Hom, Christine S. Soran, B. Zevin, Michael Mason, J. Graterol, Phillip O. Coffin   +9 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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Postsurgical Opioid Prescribing Among Injured Workers in Washington State: 2017–2020 Trends and Policy Effects

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction The widespread adoption of longer duration opioid prescribing for acute pain management following surgeries has coincided with concerning increases in misuse, dependence, and overdose. We evaluated the impact of voluntary opioid prescribing guidelines and concurrent state pharmacy rules on prescribing trends following surgeries ...
John R. Haight, Deborah Fulton‐Kehoe, Anjum Hajat, Joel D. Kaufman, Gary M. Franklin   +4 more
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The Economic Burden of Prescription Opioid Overdose, Abuse and Dependence in the United States, 2013

Medical Care, 2016
Importance:It is important to understand the magnitude and distribution of the economic burden of prescription opioid overdose, abuse, and dependence to inform clinical practice, research, and other decision makers. Decision makers choosing approaches to
C. Florence, Feijun Luo, Likang Xu, Chao Zhou   +3 more
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Predicting opioid overdose risk of patients with opioid prescriptions using electronic health records based on temporal deep learning

Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2021
The US is experiencing an opioid epidemic, such that opioid overdose is causing more than 100 deaths per day. Identifying patients at high risk of Opioid Overdose (OD) can help to make early clinical interventions to reduce the risk of OD.
Xinyu Dong, Jianyuan Deng, W. Hou, S. Rashidian, R. Rosenthal, M. Saltz, J. Saltz, Fusheng Wang   +7 more
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Identification of antibiotic allergies in children using prescribing patterns in the electronic medical record

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Background By age three, 5%–75% of children have a documented antibiotic allergy (AL). Despite this prevalence, recognition remains low because of limited clinician knowledge and time. Our study evaluates a novel approach to identifying AL using electronic medical record (EMR) prescription patterns.
Georgia Koutsaplis, Kailey Tang, Renee Dimond, Alice Lei, Amanda Wilkins, Amanda Gwee   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A call for compassionate opioid overdose response.

The International journal on drug policy
High dose and long-acting opioid overdose reversal drugs can precipitate withdrawal in people who are opioid dependent. Products recently brought to market for community use in the United States (US) have drawn international concern because of their ...
Erin Russell, M. Hawk, Joanne Neale, A. Bennett, Corey S. Davis, Lucas G. Hill, R. Winograd, Lauren Kestner, Amy Lieberman, Alice Bell, Tim Santamour, Stephen Murray, K. Schneider, Alexander Y. Walley, T. Jones   +14 more
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Naloxone and Buprenorphine Prescribing Following U.S. Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Opioid Overdose: August 2019-April 2021

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2021
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Non-fatal emergency department (ED) visits for opioid overdose are important opportunities to prescribe naloxone and buprenorphine, both of which can prevent future overdose-related mortality.
Kao-Ping Chua, C. Dahlem, Thuy-Duong Nguyen, C. Brummett, R. Conti, Amy S B Bohnert, A. Dora-Laskey, K. Kocher   +7 more
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Codeine toxicity via breast Milk: Can this occur and implications for opiate therapy in children

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Codeine is commonly used in combination analgesic products. The use of codeine during breastfeeding can rarely be associated with serious adverse effects related to genetic polymorphisms affecting codeine's metabolism and disposition. Clinicians treating infants of breastfeeding mothers should be aware of this rare but potentially serious complication.
Michael Rieder
wiley   +1 more source