13 new papers this month, from drug development to naloxone programming, epidemiology to practice management, toxicology to supply side drug control. 1) Illicit drug overdose – Prevalence and acute management. Li W, Gunja N. Aust Fam Physician. 2013 Jul;42(7):481-5. Comment: Unable to access. Appears to be a general review of managing illicit drug toxicities. 2)Read More
PubMed Update May 2013
Here is the May 2013 roundup with 7 papers and some extra kudos to the authors for important steps forward in data or practice. 1) Ethanol Reversal of Cellular Tolerance to Morphine in Rat Locus Coeruleus Neurons. Llorente J, Withey S, Rivero G, Cunningham M, Cooke A, Saxena K, McPherson J, Oldfield S, Dewey W,Read More
PubMed Update February/March 2013
Another 8 papers on opioid overdose issues. 1) ‘It’s more about the heroin’: injection drug users’ response to an overdose warning campaign in a Canadian setting. Kerr T, Small W, Hyshka E, Maher L, Shannon K. Addiction. 2013 Mar 28. doi: 10.1111/add.12151. [Epub ahead of print] Comment: Interesting qualitative analysis of warnings issued regarding high-potencyRead More
PubMed Update December 2012 – January 2013
This is a really exciting time for research into overdose in general and naloxone in particular. 15 papers this time. Opioid overdose rates and implementation of overdose education and nasalnaloxone distribution in Massachusetts: interrupted time series analysis. Walley AY, Xuan Z, Hackman HH, Quinn E, Doe-Simkins M, Sorensen-Alawad A, Ruiz S, Ozonoff A. BMJ. 2013Read More
PubMed Update: A Year in Overdose
Here is a summary of our first year of PubMed updates. This list is NOT comprehensive and focuses on opioids at the expense of stimulant issues. There are some excellent papers not listed in the PubMed database (e.g. a couple of great papers out of Scotland we’ve discussed here and many conference abstracts). So …Read More
Pubmed May 2012 Update
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