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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
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Determinants of overdose incidents among illicit opioid users in 5 Canadian cities [PDF]

, 2004
Background: Drug overdose is a major cause of death and illness among illicit drug users. Previous research has indicated that most illicit drug users experience nonfatal overdoses and has suggested a variety of factors that are associated with risk of ...
Noel, L, Brochu, Serge, Bruneau, J, Brissette, Suzanne, Brissette, S, Haydon, Emma, Noel, Lina, Rehm, Jürgen, Wild, C, Wild, Cameron, Brochu, S, Tyndall, Mark, Baliunas, Dolly, Fischer, Benedikt, Baliunas, D, Tyndall, M, Haydon, E, El-Guebaly, N, Rehm, J, Bruneau, Julie, Mun, P, el-Gueb, Nady, Mun, Phil   +22 more
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APHL Polysubstance Overdose Expanded Biosurveillance Strategy [PDF]

Running title: APHL Polysubstance Overdose Expanded Biosurveillance Strategy.This project was 100% funded with federal funds from a federal program of $291,833.

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Behind every overdose there is a family that is suffering. [PDF]

, 2015
IN 2012, 350 people died in Ireland from overdoses – twice as many people as those who died in traffic accidents that same year. Today is International Overdose Awareness Day, a time to draw attention to the impact overdoses have across the ...

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Overdose of Parstelin [PDF]

BMJ, 1965
J N, MACCAIG, J S, EDMONDSON
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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

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
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Drug overdose deaths in 28 states and the District of Columbia : 2020 data from the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System [PDF]

Key findings:\u2022 Two overarching COVID-19-related themes were identified among overdose decedents\u2022 during January\u2013June 2020: physical and mental impacts of the pandemic and missed touchpoints or opportunities for intervention.\u2022 Commonly

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“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
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Increases in fentanyl drug confiscations and fentanyl-related overdose fatalities [PDF]

October 26, 2015, 0815 EDT (08:15 AM EDT)CDCHAN-00384The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are investigating recent increases in fentanyl-related unintentional overdose fatalities in multiple ...

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