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Paroxetine overdose

Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2005
Paroxetine is a commonly used antidepressant with a safe side-effect profile. A case of paroxetine overdose (560 mg) is reported in an 18-year-old female who attempted suicide and recovered without any sequelae, requiring only supportive treatment.
Gupta, Arun K., Verma, Pankaj, Praharaj, Samir K., Roy, Dipayan, Singh, Anuradha   +4 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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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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Amlodipine Overdose [PDF]

Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2013
We describe the case of a 24-year-old woman who intentionally ingested between 400 and 600 mg of amlodipine along with a large number of simvastatin and trazodone tablets.
Tapan, Patel, David, Tietze, Ankit N, Mehta   +2 more
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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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Bridging the Gap: Implementation and Uptake of AUDIT-C Alcohol Screening for Inpatient Surgery

Annals of Surgery Open
Objective:. To evaluate the feasibility of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C) screening among surgical inpatients following hospital-wide implementation of a quality improvement initiative. Background:.
Toby Chen, BS, Dominic Alessio, BS, Anne Fernandez, PhD, Sarah Evilsizer, BSN, Chiao-Li Chan, MSW, Vidhya Gunaseelan, MBA, MS, MHA, Jennifer F. Waljee, MD, MPH, MS, Mark C. Bicket, MD, PhD   +7 more
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Pilot findings on the real-world performance of xylazine test strips for drug residue testing and the importance of secondary testing methods

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: Xylazine is a sedative found increasingly in the illicit fentanyl supply that can cause hypotension, bradycardia, necrosis and death. This pilot examined the real-world performance of BTNX xylazine test strips (XTS) in drug residue samples ...
Erin Thompson, Jessica Tardif, Merci Ujeneza, Adina Badea, Traci C. Green, Haley McKee, Michelle McKenzie, Ju Nyeong Park   +7 more
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Personal experience and awareness of opioid overdose occurrence among peers and willingness to administer naloxone in South Africa: findings from a three-city pilot survey of homeless people who use drugs

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Drug overdoses occur when the amount of drug or combination of drugs consumed is toxic and negatively affects physiological functioning. Opioid overdoses are responsible for the majority of overdose deaths worldwide.
Michael Wilson, Amanda Brumwell, M. J. Stowe, Shaun Shelly, Andrew Scheibe   +4 more
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