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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
doaj   +1 more source

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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Drug Overdose Deaths in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Network Open, 2022
This cross-sectional study describes the nationwide trends in drug overdose mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic by age, sex, and race and ethnicity.
B. Han, Emily B. Einstein, Christopher M. Jones, Jessica H Cotto, W. Compton, N. Volkow   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pilot findings on the real-world performance of xylazine test strips for drug residue testing and the importance of secondary testing methods

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: Xylazine is a sedative found increasingly in the illicit fentanyl supply that can cause hypotension, bradycardia, necrosis and death. This pilot examined the real-world performance of BTNX xylazine test strips (XTS) in drug residue samples ...
Erin Thompson, Jessica Tardif, Merci Ujeneza, Adina Badea, Traci C. Green, Haley McKee, Michelle McKenzie, Ju Nyeong Park   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
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Concentrated burdens: how self-interest and partisanship shape opinion on opioid treatment policy [PDF]

, 2019
When does self-interest influence public opinion on contentious public policies? The bulk of theory in political science suggests that self-interest is only a minor force in public opinion.
De Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Hankinson, Michael   +1 more
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COVID-19 and the Drug Overdose Crisis: Uncovering the Deadliest Months in the United States, January‒July 2020.

American Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objectives. To determine the magnitude of increases in monthly drug-related overdose mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.Methods.
Joseph Friedman, Samir Akre
semanticscholar   +1 more source

CASTNet: Community-Attentive Spatio-Temporal Networks for Opioid Overdose Forecasting

, 2019
Opioid overdose is a growing public health crisis in the United States. This crisis, recognized as "opioid epidemic," has widespread societal consequences including the degradation of health, and the increase in crime rates and family problems.
A Kennedy-Hendricks, A Kolodny, AM Ertugrul, DS Burke, H Jalal, M Pierce, M Warner, NB King, PJ Gruenewald, R Hammersley, RA Rudd, S Hochreiter, S Scardapane, T Bennett, T Seddon   +14 more
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Implementation and evaluation of interprofessional overdose review team recommendations following intentional or accidental overdose events [PDF]

Mental Health Clinician
Drug overdose death rates in the United States remain high despite efforts to mitigate this risk. Many communities and hospitals across the country have implemented overdose review teams, including local overdose fatality review teams or postoverdose ...
Monica Barrett, PharmD, BCPP, Sarah Kemerer, PharmD, Michelle Colvard, PharmD, BCPP   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source