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Harm Reduction Journal, 2022 Objectives Unpredictable fluctuations in the illicit drug market increase overdose risk. Drug checking, or the use of technology to provide insight into the contents of illicit drug products, is an overdose prevention strategy with an emerging evidence ...
Jennifer J. Carroll +4 more
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Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology, 2023 Introduction Paracetamol is one of the most used medicines worldwide and is the most common important poisoning in high-income countries. In overdose, paracetamol causes dose-dependent hepatotoxicity.
Annabelle S Chidiac +3 more
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MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2021 Deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (synthetic opioids), which largely consist of illicitly manufactured fentanyl; psychostimulants with abuse potential (e.g., methamphetamine); and cocaine have increased in recent years, particularly
C. Mattson +5 more
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International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022 Objectives There are critical periods of mortality risk at onset and cessation of opioid agonist treatment. We aim to determine whether non-fatal overdose followed the same pattern as fatal overdose, comparing the first 4 weeks of treatment and ...
Nicola Jones +6 more
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Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2017–2018
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020 Of the 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, approximately two thirds (47,600) involved an opioid (1). In recent years, increases in opioid-involved overdose deaths have been driven primarily by deaths involving synthetic opioids ...
N. Wilson +4 more
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Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2002-2022
, 2023 This report provides health data from the National Center for Health Statistics.
M. Spencer +2 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2023 Background Opioid overdose deaths are of great concern to public health, with over one million lives lost since 1999. While many efforts have been made to mitigate these, Black communities continue to experience a greater burden of fatalities than their ...
Dong-Chul Seo +5 more
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American Journal of Public Health, 2023 Objectives. To test the hypothesis that law enforcement efforts to disrupt local drug markets by seizing opioids or stimulants are associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of overdose events in the surrounding geographic area. Methods.
B. Ray +7 more
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The rise of illicit fentanyls, stimulants and the fourth wave of the opioid overdose crisis
Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2021 Purpose of review This review provides an update on recently published literature on the rise of illicit fentanyls, risks for overdose, combinations with other substances, e.g. stimulants, consequences, and treatment.
D. Ciccarone
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Journal of Cannabis Research, 2023 Background Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is a psychoactive cannabinoid from the cannabis plant that can be synthetically converted from cannabidiol (CBD).
Erin K. Bradley +3 more
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