Endogenous opiates and behavior: 2022

RJ Bodnar - Peptides, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper is the forty-fifth consecutive installment of the annual anthological review of
research concerning the endogenous opioid system, summarizing articles published during …

[HTML][HTML] Discontinuation and tapering of prescribed opioids and risk of overdose among people on long-term opioid therapy for pain with and without opioid use …

MC Kennedy, A Crabtree, S Nolan, WY Mok, Z Cui… - Plos …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background The overdose crisis in North America has prompted system-level efforts to
restrict opioid prescribing for chronic pain. However, little is known about how discontinuing …

Race and Ethnicity and Emergency Department Discharge Against Medical Advice

JW Tsai, A Janke, HM Krumholz, H Khidir… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Although discharges against medical advice (DAMA) are associated with greater
morbidity and mortality, little is known about current racial and ethnic disparities in DAMA …

[HTML][HTML] How an emergency department is organized to provide opioid-specific harm reduction and facilitators and barriers to harm reduction implementation: a …

S Jiao, V Bungay, E Jenkins, M Gagnon - Harm Reduction Journal, 2023 - Springer
Background The intersection of dual public health emergencies—the COVID-19 pandemic
and the drug toxicity crisis—has led to an urgent need for acute care based harm reduction …

[HTML][HTML] Buprenorphine/naloxone initiation and referral as a quality improvement intervention for patients who live with opioid use disorder: quantitative evaluation of …

KD Stone, K Scott, BR Holroyd, E Lang, K Yee… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Objectives Opioid use disorder is a major public health concern that accounts for a high
number of potential years of life lost. Buprenorphine/naloxone is a recommended treatment …

Informing youth‐centred opioid agonist treatment: Findings from a retrospective chart review of youths' characteristics and patterns of opioid agonist treatment …

K McInerney, K Marchand, J Buckley… - Early Intervention in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Youth ages 12–24 account for approximately 20% of overdoses and yet are poorly
reached by opioid agonist treatment (OAT), the most widely recommended treatment for …

Universal precautions for people at risk of opioid overdose in North America

E Wood, ED Solomon, SE Hadland - JAMA Internal Medicine, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
North America is experiencing an unprecedented opioid overdose epidemic now driven by
illicitly manufactured fentanyl, which has largely displaced prescription opioids and heroin in …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial clustering of heroin-related overdose incidents: a case study in Cincinnati, Ohio

JI Choi, J Lee, AB Yeh, Q Lan, H Kang - BMC public health, 2022 - Springer
Background Drug overdose is one of the top leading causes of accidental death in the US,
largely due to the opioid epidemic. Although the opioid epidemic is a nationwide issue, it …

Overdose and mortality risk following a non-fatal opioid overdose treated by Emergency Medical Services in King County, Washington

JE Hood, S Aleshin-Guendel, A Poel, J Liu… - Drug and alcohol …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies respond to hundreds of
thousands of acute overdose events each year. We conducted a retrospective cohort study …

[HTML][HTML] One-year mortality of emergency department patients with substance-induced psychosis

D Barbic, M Whyte, G Sidhu, A Luongo… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Objectives Psychosis is a well established complication of non-prescription drug use. We
sought to measure the 1-year mortality of emergency department patients with substance …