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The Bronze Age of drug checking: barriers and facilitators to implementing advanced drug checking amidst police violence and COVID-19

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, Sarah Mackin, Clare Schmidt, Michelle McKenzie, Traci C. Green   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trends and Geographic Patterns in Drug and Synthetic Opioid Overdose Deaths — United States, 2013–2019

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, Lauren J. Tanz, K. Quinn, M. Kariisa, Priyam Patel, N. Davis   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The association of criminal justice supervision setting with overdose mortality: a longitudinal cohort study. [PDF]

, 2020
Background and aimsDespite the high prevalence of substance use among people in the US criminal justice system, little is known about the incidence of overdose mortality by use patterns, drug convictions and supervision setting.
Anderson R. N., Aos S., Bronson J., Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Kaeble D., Kaeble D., Michigan Judicial Institute, National Center for Health Statistics, Zeng Z.   +8 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, M. Kariisa, P. Seth, Herschel Smith, N. Davis   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyl–Involved Overdose Deaths with Detected Xylazine — United States, January 2019–June 2022

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2023
In 2022, provisional data indicated that more than two thirds (68%) of the reported 107,081 drug overdose deaths in the United States involved synthetic opioids other than methadone, principally illicitly manufactured fentanyls (IMFs) (1).
M. Kariisa, J. O'Donnell, Sagar Kumar, C. Mattson, B. Goldberger   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“That’s why we’re speaking up today”: exploring barriers to overdose fatality prevention in Indianapolis’ Black community with semi-structured interviews

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, Naomi Satterfield, Leonardo Alba-Lopez, Shin Hyung Lee, Charlotte Crabtree, Nicki Cochran   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of opioid agonist treatment on fatal and non-fatal drug overdose among people with a history of opioid dependence in NSW, Australia, 2001-2018: findings from the OATS retrospective linkage study.

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, Louisa Degenhardt, Matthew Hickman, Suzanne Nielsen, Sarah Larney, Timothy Dobbins, Robert Ali   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paracetamol (acetaminophen) overdose and hepatotoxicity: mechanism, treatment, prevention measures, and estimates of burden of disease

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, N. Buckley, Firouzeh Noghrehchi, R. Cairns   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluation of Increases in Drug Overdose Mortality Rates in the US by Race and Ethnicity Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

JAMA psychiatry, 2022
Evaluation of Increases in Drug Overdose Mortality Rates in the US by Race and Ethnicity Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Drug overdose mortality rates have increased sharply in the US since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.1 Since 2015 ...
J. Friedman, H. Hansen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unintentional ingestion of putative delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol by two youth requiring critical care: a case report

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, Brooke E. Hoots, Evan S. Bradley, Douglas R. Roehler   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source