Life is busy and so are all these writers – 109 papers. This is four months of article updates so a bit overwhelming. Sorry about that. I tried to help by creating some categories, but there are still 35 uncategorized. 26 naloxone papers: 1) Naloxone prescriptions from the emergency department: An initiative in evolution.Read More
PubMed Update February 2018
36 papers this month. I will add that this is a PubMed literature review – we cover published articles. This month, unfortunately, an unpublished paper of very poor methodology with multiple major errors got a lot of attention. I won’t provide the link here so as to avoid drawing further attention to the paper. ItRead More
PubMed Update September-October 2017
51 in two months, continuing to run solid. 1) Using Group Visits to Provide Overdose Education and Distribute Naloxone to High-Risk Primary Care Patients. Bair MJ. Pain Med. 2017 Nov 1. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnx279. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. Comment: Described in the title, this is a commentary on a quasi-experimental study in Veterans’ Administration clinics. Read More
PubMed Update March – May 2015
Three months. 46 papers. I’m already a month behind. 1) Development and implementation of intranasal naloxone opioid overdose response protocol at a homeless health clinic. Dahlem CH, Horstman MJ, Williams BC. J Am Assoc Nurse Pract. 2015 Mar 26. doi: 10.1002/2327-6924.12249. [Epub ahead of print] Comments: Naloxone programs have been providing kits to settings where homeless people receive servicesRead More
PubMed Update July 2014
Hooray for a mere 7 paper reprieve this month. 1) Underrepresentation of Heroin Involvement in Unintentional Drug Overdose Deaths in Allegheny County, PA. Mertz KJ, Janssen JK, Williams KE. J Forensic Sci. 2014 Jul 16. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.12541. [Epub ahead of print] Comments: This manuscript presents critical and very concerning results regarding interpretation of our prescriptionRead More
PubMed Update November/December 2013
We close out 2013 with an impressive 25 papers in the final two months for a total count of 89 papers. Some interesting new approaches and perspectives, including a paper on the underappreciated role of adulterants, a couple of naltrexone papers, and lots of lay naloxone. 1) The Whole Is Just the Sum of ItsRead More
PubMed Update September 2013
12 articles this month. 1) Effectiveness of Naltrexone in the Prevention of Delayed Respiratory Arrest in Opioid-Naive Methadone-Intoxicated Patients. Aghabiklooei A, Hassanian-Moghaddam H, Zamani N, Shadnia S, Mashayekhian M, Rahimi M, Nasouhi S, Ghoochani A. Biomed Res Int. 2013;2013:903172. Epub 2013 Sep 9. Comments: Interesting use of the long-acting opioid antagonist naltrexone in this studyRead More
PubMed Update: Another Year in Overdose
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 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