Addiction
Researchers warn of next 'wave' of opioid overdose deaths
When Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Thomas Gilson issued a public health warning earlier this month, the cause wasn't COVID-19—but drugs.
Nov 30, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How the pandemic helped spread fentanyl across the US and drive opioid overdose deaths to a grim new high
For the past 20 years, I have been engaged in efforts to end the opioid epidemic, as a public health official, researcher and clinician. And for every one of those years I have looked on as the number of deaths from drug ...
Nov 23, 2021
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Addiction
Wearable device can detect and reverse opioid overdose
A research team at the University of Washington has developed a wearable device to detect and reverse an opioid overdose. The device, worn on the stomach like an insulin pump, senses when a person stops breathing and moving, ...
Nov 22, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Improved naloxone access can prevent prescription opioid overdose deaths
Making the opioid overdose antidote naloxone easily accessible and available free-of-charge to people who are prescribed opioids in Australia would be cost-effective and save hundreds of lives, new Burnet Institute research ...
Nov 18, 2021
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Medications
Increase in fatal opioid overdoses after hospital discharge
The period after hospital discharge is a high-risk time for people who use illicit opioids such as heroin, according to new research publishing October 5th in the open access journal PLOS Medicine. Fatal opioid overdoses ...
Oct 5, 2021
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Addiction
Tracking the shifting landscape of the opioid crisis
Few if any communities in the United States have escaped the opioid crisis, and in 2020, opioid overdose deaths rose sharply across the entire country. But the crisis plays out differently from place to place and over time. ...
Sep 22, 2021
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Addiction
Animal sedative is driving rise in fatal drug ODs
(HealthDay)—An animal tranquilizer, xylazine, is increasingly linked to drug overdose deaths across the United States, health officials say.
Sep 21, 2021
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Surgery
Surgery, buprenorphine, and patients in recovery from opioid use disorder
With the reintroduction of powerful narcotic opioids to manage acute pain, surgery can be a make-or-break time for patients in recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD). For those using buprenorphine as part of their recovery ...
Sep 20, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Opioid-related deaths increased among less-educated whites following LA County's stay-at-home order
Many communities were already struggling to combat the ongoing opioid epidemic when the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the country in the spring of 2020. A new study led by researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health ...
Sep 17, 2021
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Cardiology
Patients with opioid use disorder die at a rate similar to heart attacks
Hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder died at a rate comparable to those who suffered heart attacks within a year of hospital discharge, according to a new study from Oregon Health & Science University.
Sep 14, 2021
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