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

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

Objectives. To estimate health outcomes of policies to mitigate the opioid epidemic.
Methods. We used dynamic compartmental modeling of US adults, in various pain, opioid …

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Supplement. Chinese translation Background: Opioid overdose is a leading cause of …

Naloxone is a well-established essential medicine for the treatment of life-threatening
heroin/opioid overdose in emergency medicine. Over two decades, the concept of 'take …

Abstract Background North America is experiencing a rising trend of opioid overdose
exacerbated primarily in recent years through adulteration of the heroin supply with fentanyl …

Background In response to the devastating overdose epidemic across Canada, overdose
education and naloxone distribution programs (OEND) targeted at people who use drugs …

Aims To examine changes in causes of death in a cohort treated for opioid dependence,
across time and age; quantify years of potential life lost (YPLL); and identify avoidable …

In response to the growing public health problem of drug overdose, community-based
organizations have initiated overdose prevention programs (OPPs), which distribute …

Introduction Rising overdose deaths are a devastating problem across the United States and
Canada. Despite the availability of observed consumption sites in British Columbia (BC) …