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The role of concomitant drugs in the aetiology of fatal heroin- and methadone- related overdose [PDF]

, 2008
Heroin and methadone poisoning are significant causes of death of young people in the United Kingdom. In a high proportion of these fatalities concomitant substances are also detected.
Oliver, Phillip
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Risk of recurrent overdose associated with prescribing patterns of psychotropic medications after nonfatal overdose

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2017
Yasuyuki Okumura,1 Daisuke Nishi21Research Department, Institute for Health Economics and Policy, Association for Health Economics Research and Social Insurance and Welfare, Tokyo, 2Department of Mental Health Policy and Evaluation, National Institute of
Okumura Y, Nishi D
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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
Rhodes, T., Kerr, Thomas, Palmateer, N., Goldberg, David J., Hedrich, Dagmar, Palmateer, Norah, Fry, Craig L, Goldberg, David, Palmateer, Norah; id_orcid, Rhodes, Tim, Goldberg, D.J., Stöver, H., Hickman, Matthew, Hutchinson, Sharon, Hall, Wayne, Hickman, M., Brentari, C., Kimber, J., Kimber, Jo, Fischer, Benedikt, Hutchinson, S.J., Stevens, Alex, Dubois-Arber, Françoise, Hutchinson, Sharon J.; id_orcid   +23 more
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The role of increasing pharmacy and community distributed naloxone in the opioid overdose epidemic in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2022
Background: Naloxone distributed to people at risk for opioid overdose has been associated with reduced overdose death rates; however, associations of retail pharmacy-distributed naloxone with overdose mortality have not been evaluated.
Jake R. Morgan, Christina E. Freibott, Ali Jalali, Philip J. Jeng, Alexander Y. Walley, Avik Chatterjee, Traci C. Green, Michelle L. Nolan, Benjamin P. Linas, Brandon D.L. Marshall, Sean M. Murphy   +10 more
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Amlodipine Overdose: Is High Dose Insulin Ready for Prime Time

Hearts, 2022
Overdose of amlodipine, a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker (CCB), is distinguished from other CCBs due to longer plasma half-life of 30 to 58 h.
Mary Jo S. Farmer, Anisha Contractor, Joshua Allgaier   +2 more
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Spatial-temporal trends in the risk of illicit drug toxicity death in British Columbia

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Illicit drug poisoning (overdose) continues to be an important public health problem with overdose-related deaths currently recorded at an unprecedented level. Understanding the geographic variations in fatal overdose mortality is necessary to
Kevin Hu, Brian Klinkenberg, Wen Qi Gan, Amanda K. Slaunwhite   +3 more
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"AN OVERDOSE OF STRYCHNINE." [PDF]

The Lancet, 1896
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Ohio Drug Overdose Data : General Findings.

, 2015
Annual.; Began with: 2013.; Previous report cataloged as: 2012 Ohio drug overdose ...

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Building Overdose Data Linkage Capacity in US Public Health Departments: Challenges and Opportunities

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objective Linking data on people who experience drug overdoses can provide new insights and opportunities for intervention. However, because public health data infrastructure in the United States (US) is often siloed, linkage activities can require ...
B. Casey Lyons, Andrea Stewart, Rochelle Obiekwe   +2 more
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Change in Police Attendance at Overdose Events following Implementation of a Police Non-Notification Policy in British Columbia

Advances in Public Health, 2022
Introduction. Bystanders at overdose events often hesitate to call 911 due to fear of police involvement. To address this, in 2016, British Columbia Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) introduced a policy to not routinely inform police of overdose events ...
Amiti Mehta, Jessica C. Xavier, Heather Palis, Amanda Slaunwhite, Sandra Jenneson, Jane A. Buxton   +5 more
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