Another year in overdose, September 2012-August 2013, generally in reverse chronological order, and following the same loosely-formed categories as last year. Once again, this is opioid focused and misses anything not listed in the PubMed database – which means it misses many interesting papers to which you are warmly welcomed to post links! This yearRead More
PubMed Update April 2013
10 papers this time. Good stuff. Take-Home Emergency Naloxone to Prevent Heroin Overdose Deaths after Prison Release: Rationale and Practicalities for the N-ALIVE Randomized Trial. Strang J, Bird SM, Parmar MK. J Urban Health. 2013 May 1. [Epub ahead of print] Comment: Really interesting article on the design of the N-ALIVE trial of naloxone provisionRead 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