This is actually an interim update because my last PubMed pull came up dry. We have papers from New Mexico, Serbia, and Italy, as well as a case report, addressing sociodemographics, depression, naltrexone, methadone, buprenorphine, and heart failure. 1) The influence of living along the U.S.-Mexico border on unintentional drug overdose death, New Mexico (USA), 2005-2009. Shah NG,Read More
Pubmed April 2012 Update
Here we go with April 2012 … Mortality and causes of death among users of methadone maintenance treatment in Israel, 1999-2008. Rosca P, Haklai Z, Goldberger N, Zohar P, Margolis A, Ponizovsky AM. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2012 Apr 6. [Epub ahead of print] Comment: Rate of overdose mortality was 0.22/100 person-years (i.e. 0.22%), one-quarter toRead More
Pubmed March 2012 Update
A number of good papers this month! Most notable are the MMWR report and the intriguing Copenhagen data on opioid overdoses attended by emergency medical services. Buprenorphine vs methadone treatment: A review of evidence in both developed and developing worlds. Whelan PJ, Remski K. J Neurosci Rural Pract. 2012 Jan;3(1):45-50. Comment: Includes a brief reviewRead More
Pubmed December/January 2012 Update
Lots of papers over the past 8 weeks … Mortality Among Young Injection Drug Users in San Francisco: A 10-Year Follow-up of the UFO Study. Evans JL, Tsui JI, Hahn JA, Davidson PJ, Lum PJ, Page K. Am J Epidemiol. 2012 Jan 6. Comments: Thought I’d start with the best one this time, anRead More
Pubmed December 2011 Update
My favorites this week includes the first two – a paper from Serbia on post-mortem evaluations and a review of a LARGE dataset describing types of prescription opioid users and their overdose risk profiles. 1) Association of pulmonary histopathological findings with toxicological findings in forensic autopsies of illicit drug users. Todorović MS, Mitrović S,Read More
Pubmed November 2011 Update
Some good stuff this month… 1) Vital signs: overdoses of prescription opioid pain relievers — United States, 1999–2008 MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Nov 4;60:1487-92. Comment: This report summarizes the impressive outbreak of death from opioid analgesics (around 15,000 in 2008) in the United States – providing a helpful state-by-state breakdown. 2) Influence ofRead More
Pubmed October 2011 Update
My PubMed search was missing a lot of good papers, so here goes with a broader approach pulling 8 interesting papers … 1) A procedure that differentiates unintentional from intentional overdose in opioid abusers. Britton PC, Bohnert AS, Wines JD Jr, Conner KR. Addict Behav. 2011 Sep 2. *The intentionality of overdose is a recurrentRead More
Pubmed September 2011 Update
Three notable papers this week Characteristics of drug users who witness many overdoses: Implications for overdose prevention. Bohnert AS, Tracy M, Galea S. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2011 Aug 10. Comment: Another analysis from a non-fatal overdose survey in Harlem and the South Bronx. There have been some concerning results in terms of witness management ofRead More
Pubmed August 2011 Update
Two notable papers in this report: 1) Characteristics of an Overdose Prevention, Response, and Naloxone Distribution Program in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaBennett AS, Bell A, Tomedi L, Hulsey EG, Kral AHJ Urban Health. 2011 Jul 20 [Epub]Comments: A substantial contribution to the growing literature evaluating naloxone programs, this paper is a must-read for anyoneRead More
PubMed June 2011 Update
1) Mortality risk in a cohort of subjects reported by authorities for cannabis possession for personal use. Results of a longitudinal study. Pavarin RM, Berardi D. Epidemiol Prev. 2011 Mar-Apr;35(2):89-93. Comments: A database-linkage study of people arrested for marijuana possession in Bologna from 1990-2004. I’m unable to access the full article, but the abstract reportsRead More
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