Drug overdose deaths have devastating impact on friends, relatives, study finds
More than 40% of Americans know someone who died of a drug overdose, and about one-third of them say it upended their lives, a new study says. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - February 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nitazenes and xylazine: what ’s behind the rise of dangerous synthetic drugs? | podcast
Social affairs correspondent Robert Booth tells Madeleine Finlay why a class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes, first developed in the 1950s, is leading to a worrying number of fatal overdoses in the UK. And she hears from toxicology and addiction specialist Dr Joseph D ’Orazio about a tranquilliser called xylazine that has been showing up in alarming volumes in the US illegal drug supply and is now starting to appear in toxicology reports in the UKClips: Sky News, CBS NewsContinue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 20, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Madeleine Finlay with Robert Booth, produced by Holly Fisher, sound design by Joel Cox, the executive producer is Ellie Bury Tags: Science Opioids crisis Drugs Society US news Birmingham Source Type: news
Opioids and youth athletes - Benjamin HJ, Perri MM, Leemputte J, Lewallen L, Devries C.
CONTEXT: The ongoing opioid epidemic and associated adverse effects impart a large burden on our current healthcare system. The annual economic and noneconomic cost of opioid use disorder and fatal opioid overdose is currently estimated at $1 trillion. ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Social and economic determinants of drug overdose deaths: a systematic review of spatial relationships - Fink DS, Schleimer JP, Keyes KM, Branas CC, Cerd á M, Gruenwald P, Hasin D.
PURPOSE: To synthesize the available evidence on the extent to which area-level socioeconomic conditions are associated with drug overdose deaths in the United States. METHODS: We performed a systematic review (in MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsychINFO, Web of... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
The sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of non-suicidal overdose: Retrospective study - Kim HJ, Lee DH.
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Source: SafetyLit - February 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Overdose-Attributed Cardiac Arrests Show Better Survival Overdose-Attributed Cardiac Arrests Show Better Survival
Cardiac arrests due to drug overdose showed higher survival with better neurologic outcomes when the first monitored rhythm was nonshockable.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - February 19, 2024 Category: Cardiology Tags: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
Former YouTube CEO ’s son found dead in UC Berkeley dorm, leaving prominent Silicon Valley family'devastated beyond comprehension ’
The son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was found dead in a college dorm on Tuesday. Marco Troper, 19, was a freshman at UC Berkeley. A drug overdose is suspected. “He ingested a drug, and we don’t know what was in it,” Troper’s grandmother, Esther Wojcicki, told SFGATE. “One thing we do…#susanwojcicki #marcotroper #ucberkeley #estherwojcicki #sfgate #siliconvalley #menlopark #google #larrypage #sergeybrin (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Routes of drug use among drug overdose deaths - United States, 2020-2022 - Tanz LJ, Gladden RM, Dinwiddie AT, Miller KD, Broz D, Spector E, O'Donnell J.
Preliminary reports indicate that more than 109,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in 2022; nearly 70% of these involved synthetic opioids other than methadone, primarily illegally manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (IMFs). Data... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 17, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Smoking Now Fuels More Drug Overdoses than Injecting Does
FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 -- Despite stereotypical images of addicts injecting heroin and then dying, new government research finds that smoking drugs such as fentanyl is now the leading cause of fatal overdoses.In the new research, published Thursday... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Tribes in Washington are battling a devastating opioid crisis. Will a multimillion-dollar bill help?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports Native Americans and Alaska Natives in Washington state die of opioid overdoses at five times the state average (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - February 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
An evaluation of first responders' intention to refer to post-overdose services following SHIELD training - Siddiqui ST, La Manna A, Connors E, Smith R, Vance K, Budesa Z, Goulka J, Beletsky L, Wood CA, Marotta P, Winograd RP.
This study was conducted to examine the effect of oc... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
2020 to 2022 Saw Increase in Percentage of OD Deaths Involving Smoking
THURSDAY, Feb. 15, 2024 -- From 2020 to 2022, there was an increase in the percentage of overdose deaths with evidence of smoking, according to research published in the Feb. 15 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 15, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
More people die after smoking drugs than injecting them, US study finds
A new government study suggests smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - February 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
More People Die After Smoking Drugs Than Injecting Them
NEW YORK — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called its study published Thursday the largest to look at how Americans took the drugs that killed them.
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CDC officials decided to study the topic after seeing reports from California suggesting that smoking fentanyl was becoming more common than injecting it. Potent, illicit versions of the painkiller are involved in more U.S. overdose deaths than any other drug.
Some early rese...
Source: TIME: Health - February 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MIKE STOBBE/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
CDC: More People Die After Smoking Drugs Than Injecting Them
(MedPage Today) -- Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests.
The CDC called its study, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the largest to look... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
