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Charting the Fourth Wave: Geographic, Temporal, Race/Ethnicity, and Demographic Trends in Polysubstance Fentanyl Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2010-2021

medRxiv, 2022
Aims: To characterize polysubstance death in the United States during the transition to the fourth wave of the overdose crisis. To characterize co-involved substances in fatal overdose involving synthetic opioids (mainly illicitly manufactured fentanyl ...
Joseph R. Friedman, Chelsea L. Shover
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Vital Signs: Drug Overdose Deaths, by Selected Sociodemographic and Social Determinants of Health Characteristics — 25 States and the District of Columbia, 2019–2020

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2022
INTRODUCTION Drug overdose deaths increased approximately 30% from 2019 to 2020 in the United States. Examining rates by demographic and social determinants of health characteristics can identify disproportionately affected populations and inform ...
M. Kariisa, N. Davis, Sagar Kumar, P. Seth, C. Mattson, Farnaz Chowdhury, Christopher M. Jones   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pregnancy and Postpartum Drug Overdose Deaths in the US Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

JAMA psychiatry, 2023
Importance Knowledge about characteristics of US pregnancy-associated decedents is needed to guide responses. Objective To examine individual sociodemographic characteristics and residing county's health care resources and socioeconomic factors among ...
Beth Han, Wilson M. Compton, Emily B. Einstein, Emerald Elder, Nora D. Volkow   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Using Linked Data to Identify Pathways of Reporting Overdose Events in British Columbia, 2015 - 2017

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Introduction Overdose events related to illicit opioids and other substances are a public health crisis in Canada. The BC Provincial Overdose Cohort is a collection of linked datasets identifying drug-related toxicity events, including death, ambulance,
Eva Graham, Bin Zhao, Mallory Flynn, Paul Gustafson, Michael Irvine, Amanda Slaunwhite, Heather Orpana, Laura MacDougall, Margot Kuo   +8 more
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Factors associated with opioid overdose during medication-assisted treatment: How can we identify individuals at risk?

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background Due to the loss of tolerance to opioids during medication-assisted treatment (MAT), this period may represent a time of heightened risk for overdose.
Vivian Y. O. Au, Tea Rosic, Nitika Sanger, Alannah Hillmer, Caroul Chawar, Andrew Worster, David C. Marsh, Lehana Thabane, Zainab Samaan   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the impact of a national naloxone programme on ambulance attendance at overdose incidents: a controlled time-series analysis [PDF]

, 2017
Background and Aims: It has been suggested that distributing naloxone to people who inject drugs (PWID) will lead to fewer attendances by emergency medical services at opioid-related overdose incidents if peer administration of naloxone was perceived ...
Ashworth, Becketti, Bennett, Bird, Box, Clark, Craig, Darke, Darke, Davoli, Jarosz, Knowlton, Lankenau, Lenton, Longo, McAuley, McAuley, McCain, Merchant, Merrall, Moore, Salmon, Seal, Shermann, Sporer, Strang, Walley, Weatherburn, World Health Organization (WHO), Wright   +29 more
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Xylazine Spreads Across the US: A Growing Component of the Increasingly Synthetic and Polysubstance Overdose Crisis

medRxiv, 2021
Background: Recent sharp exacerbations of the US overdose crisis have been linked to systemic polysubstance use and potent synthetic compounds in numerous drug classes. Xylazine is a veterinary tranquilizer, long noted in the opioid supply of Puerto Rico,
Joseph R. Friedman, Fernando Montero, Phillippe Bourgois, Rafik Wahbi, Daniel Dye, David Goodman-Meza, Chelsea Shover   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2013–2017

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2018
The 63,632 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2016 represented a 21.4% increase from 2015; two thirds of these deaths involved an opioid (1).
Lawrence Scholl, P. Seth, M. Kariisa, N. Wilson, G. Baldwin   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal Analysis Exploring the Effect of Law Enforcement Drug Market Disruptions on Overdose, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2020-2021.

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, S. Korzeniewski, George Mohler, J. Carroll, Brandon Del Pozo, G. Victor, P. Huynh, B. Hedden   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fentanyl-driven acceleration of racial, gender and geographical disparities in drug overdose deaths in the United States

PLOS Global Public Health, 2023
We examine trends in drug overdose deaths by race, gender, and geography in the United States during the period 2013–2020. Race and gender specific crude rates were extracted from the final National Vital Statistics System multiple cause-of-death ...
M. D’Orsogna, Lucas Böttcher, T. Chou
semanticscholar   +1 more source