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Death by Dealer: When Addicts Overdose, Should Dealers Be Charged with Murder? [PDF]

, 2015
The nation is currently in the throes of an epidemic of opiate addiction. More Americans now die from fatal opiate overdoses than from automobile accidents every year -- and the problem is especially pronounced in white suburban, exurban, and rural ...
Patrick Radden Keefe
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Propafenone and propranolol dual toxicity

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020
Propranolol is a highly lipid‐soluble beta‐receptor antagonist and propafenone is a potent class 1c anti‐arrhythmic agent with strong Na‐channel blockade effect.
Moonis Farooq, Faisal Qureshi, Wael Kamkoum, Feras Abuzeyad   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimated Number of Injection-Involved Overdose Deaths in US States From 2000 to 2020: Secondary Analysis of Surveillance Data

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
BackgroundIn the United States, both drug overdose mortality and injection-involved drug overdose mortality have increased nationally over the past 25 years.
Eric William Hall, Patrick Sean Sullivan, Heather Bradley   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Combatting Opioid-Related Deaths in Rural Vermont Through Community Partnership [PDF]

, 2018
Substance abuse continues to be a public health crisis. With legislative changes and creation of MAT programming in Vermont, access to behavioral health services for substance abuse treatment has shifted community response and perceptions.
Waller, Brianna F
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A descriptive study of intentional self‐poisoning from New Zealand national registry data

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2017
Objective: Understanding which population groups intentionally poison themselves by overdose and which substances are used are key to developing prevention efforts for such injuries.
Eeva‐Katri Kumpula, Shyamala Nada‐Raja, Pauline Norris, Paul Quigley   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Confronting the opioid crisis: Practical pain management and strategies: AOA 2018 critical issues symposium [PDF]

, 2019
The United States is in the midst of an opioid crisis. Clinicians have been part of the problem because of overprescribing of narcotics for perioperative pain management.
Hsu, Joseph R, Jahangir, A Alex, Miller, Anna N, Mir, Hassan R, Obremskey, William T   +4 more
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Staff views on overdose prevention in permanent supportive housing

Harm Reduction Journal
Background Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is the gold standard intervention for chronic homelessness, but PSH tenants face high risk for overdose due to a combination of individual and environmental risk factors. Little research has examined overdose
Kelly M. Doran, Allison Torsiglieri, Jocelyn Moran, Stephanie Blaufarb, Annie Y. Liu, Emily Ringrose, Cooper Urban, Lauren Velez, Patricia Hernandez, Megan A. O’Grady, Donna Shelley, Charles M. Cleland   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Opioid overdose combined with possible xylazine toxicity: A case report and literature review

JEM Reports
Background: Xylazine, a sedative used in veterinary medicine, has been increasingly used as an adulterant in illicit drugs in the United States, most commonly opioids.
Christopher Colbert, Kevin Trembley, Wesley Eilbert   +2 more
doaj   +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

Harm Reduction Journal
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 ...
Courteney Wettemann, David L. Perlmutter, Tessa Frohe, Taylor Ryan, Grover “Will” Williams, Nathan Holland, Rachel Rourke, Robert Pitcher, Callan Elswick Fockele, Brenda Goh, Germaine Billingsley, Jenna van Draanen   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Guide to Prescribing Sufficient Post Surgical Quantities of Opiate Pain Medications [PDF]

, 2019
Purpose: To examine opiate pain medication prescription and consumption after surgical procedures at VCU Medical ...
Pflugrath, Adam
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