Community-based opioid overdose prevention programs (OOPPs) that include the
distribution of naloxone have increased in response to alarmingly high overdose rates in …

Background Drug overdose deaths have been rising since the early 1990s and is the
leading cause of injury death in the United States. Overdose from prescription opioids …

Objective To evaluate the impact of state supported overdose education and nasal naloxone
distribution (OEND) programs on rates of opioid related death from overdose and acute care …

This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a
Supplement. Chinese translation Background: Opioid overdose is a leading cause of …

The historical patterns of opiate use show that sources and methods of access greatly
influence who is at risk. Today, there is evidence that an enormous increase in the …

Opioid dependence is a problem of national concern, especially with dramatically increased
rates of abuse and dependence of prescription opioids. The current article provides an up-to …

The objective of this review was to assess the effectiveness of bystander naloxone
administration and overdose education programs by synthesizing quantitative results …

Background As physicians have increased opioid prescribing, overdose deaths from
pharmaceutical opioids have substantially increased in the United States. Naloxone …

Background Opioid overdose is a major cause of mortality, but injury and fatal outcomes can
be prevented by timely administration of the opioid antagonist naloxone. Pre-provision of …

This paper is the 28th consecutive installment of the annual review of research concerning
the endogenous opioid system, now spanning over a quarter-century of research. It …