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Association of Dose Tapering With Overdose or Mental Health Crisis Among Patients Prescribed Long-term Opioids.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2021
Importance Opioid-related mortality and national prescribing guidelines have led to tapering of doses among patients prescribed long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain.
A. Agnoli, G. Xing, D. Tancredi, Elizabeth M Magnan, A. Jerant, J. Fenton   +5 more
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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
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Homeless drug users' awareness and risk perception of peer "Take Home Naloxone" use – a qualitative study [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND Peer use of take home naloxone has the potential to reduce drug related deaths. There appears to be a paucity of research amongst homeless drug users on the topic.
A Edwards, A Jones, B Powis, D Best, D Bigg, Department of Health, H Joffe, HMSO, J Fountain, J Strang, J Strang, K Dettmer, Katharine Francis, Lesley Jones, M Gossop, N Wright, N Wright, Nat Wright, Nicola Oldham, NMAC, NS Oldham, O Renn, PT O' Driscoll, S Darke, SR Lenton, T Beswick, T Greenhalgh, World Health Organisation   +27 more
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Routes of Drug Use Among Drug Overdose Deaths — United States, 2020–2022

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
Preliminary reports indicate that more than 109,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in 2022; nearly 70% of these involved synthetic opioids other than methadone, primarily illegally manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (IMFs ...
ScD Lauren J. Tanz, PhD R. Matt Gladden, Mph Amanda T. Dinwiddie, Mph Kimberly D. Miller, PhD Dita Broz, MS Eliot Spector, PhD Julie O’Donnell   +6 more
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Implementation of Safe Supply Alternatives During Intersecting COVID-19 and Overdose Health Emergencies in British Columbia, Canada, 2021.

American Journal of Public Health, 2022
Objectives. To explore the implementation and effectiveness of the British Columbia, Canada, risk mitigation guidelines among people who use drugs, focusing on how experiences with the illicit drug supply shaped motivations to seek prescription ...
R. McNeil, Taylor Fleming, Samara Mayer, Allison Barker, Manal Mansoor, Alex Betsos, Tamar Austin, Sylvia Parusel, Andrew Ivsins, Jade Boyd   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
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Assessing the 2004-2018 fentanyl misusing issues reported to an international range of adverse reporting systems [PDF]

, 2019
© 2019 Schifano, Chiappini, Corkery and Guirguis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Chiappini, Stephania, Corkery, John, Guirguis, Amira, Schifano, Fabrizio   +3 more
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Xylazine in Overdose Deaths and Forensic Drug Reports in US States, 2019-2022

JAMA Network Open
Key Points Question To what extent is xylazine reported in fatal overdoses and law enforcement drug submissions in different states? Findings In this cross-sectional study of US overdose deaths and forensic reports, 16 states had no xylazine forensic ...
Manuel Cano, Raminta Daniulaityte, Flavio Marsiglia   +2 more
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Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths--United States, 2000-2014.

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2016
The United States is experiencing an epidemic of drug overdose (poisoning) deaths. Since 2000, the rate of deaths from drug overdoses has increased 137%, including a 200% increase in the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids (opioid pain relievers ...
R. A. Rudd, Noah Aleshire, Jon E. Zibbell, R. M. Gladden   +3 more
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COVID-19 impact on opioid overdose after jail release in Massachusetts

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2023
Introduction: Release from incarceration is a high-risk period for opioid overdose. Concern about COVID-19 spread in jails led to early releases; it is unknown whether pandemic era releases of persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) contributed to ...
Peter D. Friedmann, Devon Dunn, Pryce Michener, Dana Bernson, Thomas J. Stopka, Ekaterina Pivovarova, Warren J. Ferguson, Rebecca Rottapel, Randall Hoskinson, Jr., Donna Wilson, Elizabeth A. Evans   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source