Overdose prevention for people who use illicit drugs is essential during the current overdose
crisis. Peer support is a process whereby individuals with lived or living experience of a …

Background There are preliminary indications that the trajectory of drug overdose-related
deaths in North America has been exacerbated due to the novel coronavirus disease …

Objectives: Review general guideleines for safe prescribing practices. Describe behaviors
that suggest drug diversion or drug-seeking and appropriate responses. Outline expected …

Opioids were the most common drug class resulting in overdose deaths in the United States
in 2019. Widespread clinical use of prescription opioids for moderate to severe pain …

Opioid use and abuse for acute and chronic pain are a significant problem in the United
States and Tennesee.[1][2][3] The rate of overdose-related to the use of illicit opioids has …

This paper is the forty-fifth consecutive installment of the annual anthological review of
research concerning the endogenous opioid system, summarizing articles published during …

Background and aims Incarceration produces a specific public health threat for drug
overdose, and correctional settings do not offer medication for opioid use disorder. This …

Background During the last decade, opioid prescription policies in Norway have been
liberalised and pharmaceutical opioid (PO) dispensing has increased. Against this …

Tobias et al.(Am J Epidemiol. 2022; 191 (2): 241–247) present a novel analysis of time
trends in fentanyl concentrations in the unregulated drug supply in British Columbia …

Background The ongoing opioid epidemic and increases in alcohol-related mortality are key
public health concerns in the USA, with well-documented inequalities in the degree to which …