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Spatial Concentration of Opioid Overdose Deaths in Indianapolis: An Application of the Law of Crime Concentration at Place to a Public Health Epidemic [PDF]

, 2019
The law of crime concentration at place has become a criminological axiom and the foundation for one of the strongest evidence-based policing strategies to date.
Carter, Jeremy G., Mohler, George, Ray, Bradley   +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
doaj   +1 more source

Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response. [PDF]

, 2019
Alexander Tsai and co-authors discuss the role of stigma in responses to the US opioid ...
Barnett, Michael L, Beletsky, Leo, Keyes, Katherine M, Kiang, Mathew V, McGinty, Emma E, Smith, Laramie R, Strathdee, Steffanie A, Tsai, Alexander C, Venkataramani, Atheendar S, Wakeman, Sarah E   +9 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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

CASTNet: Community-Attentive Spatio-Temporal Networks for Opioid Overdose Forecasting

, 2019
Opioid overdose is a growing public health crisis in the United States. This crisis, recognized as "opioid epidemic," has widespread societal consequences including the degradation of health, and the increase in crime rates and family problems.
A Kennedy-Hendricks, A Kolodny, AM Ertugrul, DS Burke, H Jalal, M Pierce, M Warner, NB King, PJ Gruenewald, R Hammersley, RA Rudd, S Hochreiter, S Scardapane, T Bennett, T Seddon   +14 more
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Patient Preference for Pain Medication in the Emergency Department Is Associated with Non-fatal Overdose History

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2018
Introduction: Opioid overdose is a major public health problem. Emergency physicians need information to better assess a patient’s risk for overdose or opioid-related harms.
Lauren K. Whiteside, Jason Goldstick, Aaron Dora-Laskey, Laura Thomas, Maureen Walton, Rebecca Cunningham, Amy S.B. Bohnert   +6 more
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Early intravenous lipid emulsion therapy for diphenhydramine overdose: a case report

Toxicology Communications, 2021
Diphenhydramine (DPH) is a lipophilic inverse agonist at the histamine receptor. Overdoses usually present with anticholinergic symptoms. Wide-complex tachycardia decompensating into cardiovascular collapse may occur in larger overdoses. Here we report a
Joseph Clemons, Arvinder Jandu, Brandon Stein, Michael A. Chary   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source