Background. Drug overdose is an important, yet an inadequately understood, public health
problem. Global attention to unintentional drug overdose has been limited by comparison …

Aims To determine the contribution of heroin, prescription opioids, cocaine and alcohol/drug
combinations to the total overdose death rate and identify changes in drug overdose …

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 …

Introduction British Columbia (BC), Canada declared a public health emergency in April
2016 for opioid overdose. Comprehensive data was needed to identify risk factors, inform …

Drug overdose is now the leading cause of unintentional death nationwide, driven by
increased prescription opioid overdoses. To better understand urban opioid overdose …

Aims To examine trends and recent changes in non‐fatal and fatal stimulant overdose rates
with and without opioids to improve the descriptive characterization of the US overdose …

Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are at an elevated risk of fatal overdose in the
first year after experiencing a non-fatal event. Such non-fatal events may also result in …

Context Use and abuse of prescription narcotic analgesics have increased dramatically in
the United States since 1990. The effect of this pharmacoepidemic has been most …

Objectives To examine the relationship between non-fatal overdose and risk of subsequent
fatal overdose. Methods We assessed risk factors for overdose death among two …

The US opioid epidemic is continuing. Drug overdose deaths nearly tripled during 1999–
2014. In 2014, among 47,055 drug overdose deaths, 61% involved an opioid. During 2013 …