Opioid overdose
<p>Incidence of Opioid Overdose Among Patients Using ER/LA Opioid Analgesics Before and After Implementation of the Class-Wide Opioid Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy</p>
... of overdose over time is ...s opioid prescriber(s) had completed REMS-compliant conti- nuing education is unknown in this ...impact opioid harm, a more informative future approach may be to directly ...
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<p>CYP2D6 Expression in Veterans Experiencing Opioid Overdose: A Postmortem Review</p>
... Veterans with a history of having hydrocodone, oxyco- done, or tramadol prescribed were selected, although if those medications were actually ingested could not be verified. Toxicology results revealed that less than ...
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Psychosocial and contextual correlates of opioid overdose risk among drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia
... described opioid overdose symp- toms, with ...amphetamine overdose symptoms; ...for opioid overdose such as taking too large a dose ...about overdose risk factors was observed; ...
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Rationale for cannabis-based interventions in the opioid overdose crisis
... annual opioid overdose mortality rate com- pared to states without medical cannabis laws, and a 2016 study found that the number of Medicare prescriptions to seniors in medical cannabis states dropped for ...
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Intranasal versus Intramuscular/Intravenous Naloxone for Pre-hospital Opioid Overdose: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
... In recent years, numerous clinical trials have investigated the administration of naloxone for the pre-hospital management of opioid overdose complications. As an example, Kelly et al. demonstrated that, in ...
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Opioid overdose prevention and naloxone rescue kits: what we know and what we don’t know
... potent opioid antagonist that is avid at the mu opioid ...suspected opioid overdose with respiratory and/or central nervous system ...nize opioid overdose and instruct them how ...
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Recent changes in trends of opioid overdose deaths in North America
... on opioid overdose deaths are not available in ...of opioid overdose deaths often differ between ...of opioid overdose deaths in 2017 ...[40], opioid overdose ...
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Recommendations for action: a community meeting in preparation for a mass casualty opioid overdose event in Southeastern Ontario
... the opioid si- tuation in Ontario has put the problem-solving skills of municipal, provincial, and federal leaders to the ...Mass Opioid Overdose Workshop hosted by KFL&A Public Health ...
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State marijuana laws and opioid overdose mortality
... the opioid epidemic is primarily driven by illicit fentanyl and analogs, prescrip- tion opioids continue to play a significant role, contribut- ing to more than 35% of the overall overdose mortality ...
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Bohnert et al - Association Between Opioid Prescribing Patterns and Opioid Overdose-Related Deaths.pdfView Download
... of opioid regimens (dose and schedule) with death by unintentional prescription opioid overdose in subgroups defined by clinical diagnoses, adjusting for age group, sex, race, ethnicity, and comorbid ...
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The Place of Community Rescue Naloxone in a Public Health Crisis of Opioid Overdose
... to opioid overdoses is quite ...with opioid overdose no more than twice and that subsequent requests for emergency aid go unanswered ...how opioid overdoses are treated—and how naloxone ...
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Engagement in the Overdose RIsk InfOrmatioN (ORION) e Health tool for opioid overdose prevention and self efficacy : a preliminary study
... alcohol)?”), recent (2 weeks) release from prison (“Have you recently been released from prison or residential rehab?”), not receiving treatment (“Are you receiving some form of treatment for taking drugs (including ...
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Intranasal naloxone and related strategies for opioid overdose intervention by nonmedical personnel: a review
... 1) opioid addicts who inject drugs often have poor venous access, resulting in a loss of valuable time trying to gain IV access if multiple attempts are required; 2) IM and SQ routes of administration can be ...
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Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit (Updated)
... The FDA has approved an injectable naloxone, an intranasal naloxone, and a naloxone auto-injector as emergency treatments for opioid overdose. People receiving naloxone kits that include a syringe and ...
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Take home naloxone rescue kits following heroin overdose in the emergency department to prevent opioid overdose related repeat emergency department visits, hospitalization and death a pilot study
... are opioid overdose related repeat ED visit(s), hospitaliza- tion(s) or ...documented opioid overdose, recent period of abstinence, medical conditions, pre- scription medications, use of other ...
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Factors associated with opioid overdose: a 10-year retrospective study of patients in a large integrated health care system
... Although our research tends to validate previous findings, it is unique because it shows the extent and variation of ODs in a large geographic area dominated by a major health care system. Consequently, the findings of ...
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One opioid user saving another: the first study of an opioid overdose-reversal and naloxone distribution program addressing hard-to-reach drug scenes in Denmark
... Only 8% of the distributed naloxone kits were used to reverse an OD by only 7% of the SL participants during the project period. This is significantly less compared to some other studies [23, 48]. Despite the rather low ...
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Protocol: changes in rates of opioid overdose and poisoning events in an integrated health system following the introduction of a formulation of OxyContin® with abuse-deterrent properties
... categorize opioid- related overdoses and poisonings using chart audits Opioid-related overdoses and poisoning events are identi- fied and then compared to chart audits using the following approach: We use ...
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Time Trends Matter: The Case of Medical Cannabis Laws and Opioid Overdose Mortality
... define opioid over- doses as deaths due to “Accidental poisoning” (ICD-10 codes X40 to X44), “Intentional self-poisoning” (X60 to X69), “Assault by drugs, medicaments and biological substances” (X85), or ...
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Deregulating Naloxone to Combat Opioid-Related Overdoses in British Columbia
... synthetic opioid, accounts for the drastic increase in illicit drug overdose deaths, suggesting not only an increase in the availability of opioids but also an increase in ...powerful opioid ...
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