Fentanyl and drug overdose: perceptions of fentanyl risk, overdose risk behaviors, and opportunities for intervention among people who use opioids in Baltimore, USA

CA Latkin, L Dayton, MA Davey-Rothwell… - Substance use & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… people who use opioids (… fentanyl risk and training needs; fatal overdose prevention
behaviors; and, feasibility of a peer education approach to reducing fentanyl-related fatal overdoses

Opioid overdose in the age of fentanyl: risk factor differences among subpopulations of overdose survivors

A Kline, D Mattern, N Cooperman, JM Williams… - … Journal of Drug Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
… because it has bad withdrawal effects;” and “If I hear about a drug that caused an overdose,
I try to buy that same drug.” We created the scale by reverse coding items as needed and …

Underlying factors in drug overdose deaths

D Dowell, RK Noonan, D Houry - Jama, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
use heroin are not seeking fentanyl and try to avoid it. It can be difficult to identify fentanyl,
particularly in the white powder heroinuse drugs require education about the risks of fentanyl

[HTML][HTML] The rising crisis of illicit fentanyl use, overdose, and potential therapeutic strategies

Y Han, W Yan, Y Zheng, MZ Khan, K Yuan… - Translational psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
… for the treatment of fentanyl overdose compared with heroin overdose, although no human
… of them perceived the high risk of fentanyl-adulterated heroin and overdose, but most of them …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding intentionality of fentanyl use and drug overdose risk: findings from a mixed methods study of people who inject drugs in New York City

C McKnight, CA Weng, M Reynoso, S Kimball… - … Journal of Drug Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
… expressed preference for heroin. Our results suggest that the … of fentanyl may be increasing
fentanyl use and tolerance, which may contribute to an increased risk for drug overdose. …

[HTML][HTML] Differences in drug use behaviors that impact overdose risk among individuals who do and do not use fentanyl test strips for drug checking

AS Tilhou, J Zaborek, A Baltes, E Salisbury-Afshar… - Harm reduction …, 2023 - Springer
… impact of FTS use on drug use behaviors that impact overdose risk, we compare the behaviors
reported by PWUD who do and do not use FTS. Among PWUD who report using FTS, we …

Knowledge of fentanyl and perceived risk of overdose among persons who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada

S Moallef, E Nosova, MJ Milloy… - Public Health …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
… The rate of detection of fentanyl in illicit drug overdose deaths rose fromdrug use as a risk
factor for fatal and nonfatal overdose. Our findings suggest that the perception of overdose risk

Increase in drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl—Rhode Island, January 2012–March 2014

MC Mercado, SA Sumner, MB Spelke, MK Bohm… - … medicine, 2018 - academic.oup.com
use, and multiple opioid prescriber and dispenser risk factors among drug overdose
decedents in Rhode Island, in response to an … This study explored three types of risk factors for …

Fentanyl shock: the changing geography of overdose in the United States

M Zoorob - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
… Rapid increases in drug overdose deaths in the United States since 2014 have been
highly … disparate changes in drug supply that heighten the risk of overdose. Above all, they …

Perceptions about fentanyl-adulterated heroin and overdose risk reduction behaviors among persons seeking treatment for heroin use

MD Stein, SR Kenney, BJ Anderson… - Journal of substance abuse …, 2019 - Elsevier
… the use of overdose risk reduction behaviors among persons seeking treatment for heroin
use … People perceiving that fentanyl is involved in an overdose may also believe that certain …