Exploring trends in benzodiazepine-positive fatal drug overdoses in Tennessee, 2019-2021 - Moses J, Korona-Bailey J, Mukhopadhyay S.
Background
Benzodiazepine-positive overdoses increased between 2019 and 2021 in Tennessee. We sought to determine the changes in the number and characteristics of prescription and illicit benzodiazepine-positive fatal drug overdoses during this period.... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 20, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Overdose detection mapping application program expansion evaluation--a qualitative study - Delcher C, Horne N, McDonnell C, Bae J, Surratt H.
We conducted a multisite qualitative evaluation of the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP) expansion states that received federal funding in 2019 to measurably augment, adopt, and/or use ODMAP in their service areas. Across five states, ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 20, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Acute kidney injury following naphthalene (mothball) poisoning - Mathur P, Garg S.
Naphthalene is a widely available moth repellant in the Asian subcontinent. Toxicity can occur either accidentally or intentionally as a suicide attempt. An overdose can lead to a variety of clinical symptoms, including intravascular hemolysis, and can som... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
The clinical evolutions of surveillance and violence during three contemporary US crises: opioid overdose, COVID-19, and racial reckoning - Knight KR.
In 2020, three crises coalesced to transform the clinical care landscape of addiction medicine in the United States (US). The opioid overdose crisis (crisis #1), which had been contributing to excess US mortality for over two decades, worsened during the C... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Some New Hampshire residents want better answers from the 2024 candidates on the opioid crisis
Drug overdose deaths in New Hampshire have increased in recent years, and some residents want to hear more from the presidential candidates about how they'd help (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - January 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Overdose Death Notices Plus Guidance Sink Opioid Prescribing
(MedPage Today) -- Physicians who received a letter from a medical examiner about a patient's fatal overdose -- along with suggested guidance for future visits for pain -- prescribed fewer opioids, according to a cluster randomized controlled... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Taking Too Many Vitamins? Side Effects of Vitamin Overdosing
WebMD explains why taking too many vitamins can be unhealthy and even dangerous, and how to be sure you’re getting the right amount of vitamins and minerals. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - January 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CDER ’s Continued Efforts to Widen Naloxone Access
To address this evolving crisis, FDA announced our Overdose Prevention Framework – our vision to undertake impactful, creative actions to prevent drug overdoses and reduce deaths. (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - January 16, 2024 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news
Perspectives of healthcare workers on the integration of overdose detection technologies in acute care settings - Rioux W, Kilby K, Jones S, Joshi P, VandenBerg S, Ghosh SM.
BACKGROUND: People who use drugs (PWUD) face disproportionately high rates of hospitalizations and patient-initiated discharge (leaving against medical advice), explained by a combination of stigma, withdrawal, judgment, blame, and improper pain management... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Plastic bag suffocation and codeine overdose: an unusual case of complex suicide and review of the literature - Tarozzi I, Franceschetti L, Chericoni S, Rizzo A, Bugelli V.
The term "planned complex suicide" refers to cases where two or more suicide methods are applied simultaneously. Plastic bag suffocation is a suicidal method commonly combined with self-poisoning by inhalation of volatile compounds or pharmacological subst... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Antidepressants and suicide: 7,829 inquests in England and Wales, 2003-2020 - Read J.
BACKGROUND: Antidepressant (AD) medications increase suicidality for some, or all, age groups. Some, or all, types of ADs, are frequently used in suicides involving overdoses. METHODS: The article examines a previously unanalyzed data set summarizi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Addressing the spectrum of opioid misuse prevention, treatment, and recovery in rural Washington State communities: provider identified barriers and needs - Kriegel LS, Hampilos K, Weybright E, Weeks DL, Jett J, Hill L, Roll J, McDonell M.
The opioid overdose epidemic has significantly impacted rural communities. Rural settings present unique challenges to addressing opioid misuse. The purpose of the current study was to understand the similarities and differences between rural and urban-bas... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
A scoping review of law enforcement drug seizures and overdose mortality in the United States - Cano M, Timmons P, Hooten M, Sweeney K, Oh S.
BACKGROUND: Leveraging law enforcement drug seizure data to better respond to the overdose crisis requires an understanding of available evidence and knowledge gaps regarding relationships between drug seizures and overdose mortality. OBJECTIVE: Th... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Pregnancy-associated homicide, suicide and unintentional opioid-involved overdose deaths, North Carolina 2018-2019 - Austin AE, Naumann RB, DiPrete BL, Geary S, Proescholdbell SK, Jones-Vessey K.
OBJECTIVE: Rates of death due to homicide, suicide and overdose during pregnancy and the first year postpartum have increased substantially in the USA in recent years. The aims of this study were to use 2018-2019 data on deaths identified for review by the... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
US Residential Addiction Treatment for Teens Limited, Costly US Residential Addiction Treatment for Teens Limited, Costly
Despite an epidemic of overdose deaths among US teens, access to adolescent residential addiction treatments is expensive and often hard to come by, a new analysis showed.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: news
