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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

"I don't let anybody die on my watch": perspectives on the intersection of community overdose response and emergency medical services among people who use drugs in Seattle, WA. [PDF]

Harm Reduct J
Background The increasing implementation of harm reduction strategies such as take-home naloxone has placed people who use drugs (PWUD) in the position of overdose responders during overdose events, but the perspectives of PWUD are underrepresented in ...
Wettemann C, Perlmutter DL, Frohe T, Ryan T, Williams GW, Holland N, Rourke R, Pitcher R, Elswick Fockele C, Goh B, Billingsley G, van Draanen J.   +11 more
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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
doaj   +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

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

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

Overdose Detection Technologies to Reduce Solitary Overdose Deaths: A Literature Review

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023
Drug overdoses were a leading cause of injury and death in the United States in 2021. Solitary drug use and solitary overdose deaths have remained persistent challenges warranting additional attention throughout the overdose epidemic.
Alexa Rose Lombardi, R. Arya, J. Rosen, Erin Thompson, R. Welwean, J. Tardif, J. Rich, J. Park   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths - United States, 2010-2015.

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2016
The U.S. opioid epidemic is continuing, and drug overdose deaths nearly tripled during 1999-2014. Among 47,055 drug overdose deaths that occurred in 2014 in the United States, 28,647 (60.9%) involved an opioid (1). Illicit opioids are contributing to the
R. A. Rudd, P. Seth, Felicita David, Lawrence Scholl   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of UNODC/WHO S-O-S (stop-overdose-safely) training on opioid overdose knowledge and attitudes among people at high or low risk of opioid overdose in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine. [PDF]

Harm Reduct J
Introduction Opioid overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) is an evidence-based strategy to reduce opioid overdose deaths in line with guidance provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ...
Dietze P, Colledge-Frisby S, Gerra G, Poznyak V, Campello G, Kashino W, Dzhonbekov D, Kiriazova T, Nikitin D, Terlikbayeva A, Horsburgh K, Busse A, Krupchanka D.   +12 more
europepmc   +2 more sources