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US Trends in Drug Overdose Mortality Among Pregnant and Postpartum Persons, 2017-2020.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2022
This study evaluates changes in overall and drug-specific overdose mortality among pregnant and postpartum persons before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
E. Bruzelius, S. Martins
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Spatial-temporal trends in the risk of illicit drug toxicity death in British Columbia

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Illicit drug poisoning (overdose) continues to be an important public health problem with overdose-related deaths currently recorded at an unprecedented level. Understanding the geographic variations in fatal overdose mortality is necessary to
Kevin Hu, Brian Klinkenberg, Wen Qi Gan, Amanda K. Slaunwhite   +3 more
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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
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Drug Overdose Deaths Among Persons Aged 10–19 Years — United States, July 2019–December 2021

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2022
U.S. drug overdose deaths increased 30% from 2019 to 2020 and 15% in 2021, resulting in an estimated 108,000 deaths in 2021.* Among persons aged 14-18 years, overdose deaths increased 94% from 2019 to 2020 and 20% from 2020 to 2021 (1), although illicit ...
Lauren J Tanz, Amanda T. Dinwiddie, C. Mattson, J. O'Donnell, N. Davis   +4 more
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Amlodipine Overdose: Is High Dose Insulin Ready for Prime Time

Hearts, 2022
Overdose of amlodipine, a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker (CCB), is distinguished from other CCBs due to longer plasma half-life of 30 to 58 h.
Mary Jo S. Farmer, Anisha Contractor, Joshua Allgaier   +2 more
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Receipt of Telehealth Services, Receipt and Retention of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, and Medically Treated Overdose Among Medicare Beneficiaries Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA psychiatry, 2022
Key Points Question How were federal emergency authorities to expand telehealth use for substance use disorder treatment and facilitate provision of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) used during the COVID-19 pandemic among Medicare beneficiaries
Christopher M. Jones, Carla Shoff, Kevin Hodges, Carlos Blanco, J. Losby, Shari M. Ling, W. Compton   +6 more
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Predicting accidental drug overdose as the cause of fatality in near real-time using the Suspected Potential Overdose Tracker (SPOT): public health implications

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Effective responses to the worsening drug overdose epidemic require accurate and timely drug overdose surveillance data. The objectives of this paper are to describe the development, functionality, and accuracy of the Suspected Potential ...
Karli R. Hochstatter, Sonal Rastogi, Kathryn Klein, Cameron Tait-Ozer, Nabila El-Bassel, Jason Graham   +5 more
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Change in Police Attendance at Overdose Events following Implementation of a Police Non-Notification Policy in British Columbia

Advances in Public Health, 2022
Introduction. Bystanders at overdose events often hesitate to call 911 due to fear of police involvement. To address this, in 2016, British Columbia Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) introduced a policy to not routinely inform police of overdose events ...
Amiti Mehta, Jessica C. Xavier, Heather Palis, Amanda Slaunwhite, Sandra Jenneson, Jane A. Buxton   +5 more
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Opioid Overdose Deaths: a Spatiotemporal Analysis

Journal of urban health, 2022
The effects of the opioid crisis have varied across diverse and socioeconomically defined urban communities, due in part to widening health disparities.
R. Ghose, A. Forati, John R Mantsch
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Point Process Modeling of Drug Overdoses with Heterogeneous and Missing Data [PDF]

, 2020
Opioid overdose rates have increased in the United States over the past decade and reflect a major public health crisis. Modeling and prediction of drug and opioid hotspots, where a high percentage of events fall in a small percentage of space-time, could help better focus limited social and health services.
arxiv   +1 more source