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Housing and overdose: an opportunity for the scale-up of overdose prevention interventions?

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2017
Background North America is currently experiencing an overdose epidemic due to a significant increase of fentanyl-adulterated opioids and related analogs.
Geoff Bardwell   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Postsurgical prescriptions for opioid naive patients and association with overdose and misuse: retrospective cohort study

open access: yesBritish medical journal, 2018
Objective To quantify the effects of varying opioid prescribing patterns after surgery on dependence, overdose, or abuse in an opioid naive population. Design Retrospective cohort study.
G. Brat   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Vital Signs: Characteristics of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids and Stimulants — 24 States and the District of Columbia, January–June 2019

open access: yesMMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020
Introduction Provisional estimates indicate that drug overdose deaths increased in 2019 after a slight decrease in 2018. In 2018, overdose deaths primarily involved opioids, with continued increases in deaths involving illicitly manufactured fentanyls ...
J. O'Donnell   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hybrid Nanofibers for Multimodal Accelerated Wound Healing

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Fabrication of wound healing scaffolds based on biocompatible nanofibers. Nanofibers offering high surface area, flexibility, and biocompatibility significantly improved the healing outcome in vivo. Histological, immunological, and anti‐inflammatory markers are noticeably better in treated wounds.
Viraj P. Nirwan   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Suicidal attempts and self‐poisoning: 1‐year retrospective cohort study from the quaternary hospital in Thai metropolitan area

open access: yesHealth Science Reports, 2022
Background and Aims In Thailand, suicide is the leading cause of death among middle‐aged adults. We believe suicide characteristics depend on different cultural/socioeconomic status. This study aimed to describe the characteristics and associated factors
Suthimon Thumtecho   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Opioid Crisis in Rural and Small Town America [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Mesenchymal Stem Cell‐Derived Apoptotic Micro‐Vesicles Repaired Sciatic Nerve Defect by Regulating Early Inflammatory Microenvironment and Promoting Angiogenesis

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
HUCMSC‐Apo‐mvs enhance peripheral nerve repair by modulating the inflammatory microenvironment (IME), primarily through coordinated actions on three functional cells. They recruit macrophages and promote their polarization from pro‐inflammatory M1 to anti‐inflammatory M2 phenotypes, increasing secretion of IL‐10 and VEGF.
Haolin Liu   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the 2004-2018 fentanyl misusing issues reported to an international range of adverse reporting systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Barbicidal overdose [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2010
Acute severe methemoglobinaemia is an uncommon but life-threatening condition caused by a variety of oxidizing agents commonly used in both health care and industrial settings. Thus, recognition is important as it is readily treatable. The oxygen transport is compromised as a result of abnormal levels of oxidized haemoglobin, and this leads to skin ...
Nayeem, Asim   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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