LOTS of great articles this month (10 total)! Let’s start with an updated chart of the number of scientific opioid overdose articles each year from 1980 through 2011. Injection Drug Users Trained by Overdose Prevention Programs: Responses to Witnessed Overdoses Lankenau SE, Wagner KD, Silva K, Kecojevic A, Iverson E, McNeely M, Kral AH. JRead More
PubMed June 2012 Update
jThis chart was produced in 2007 to demonstrate the increase in overdose literature in the late 1990s and early 2000s – a trend that has continued. Twenty years ago there would have been 1 article for this post every 3-4 months, which may have been okay since you would have received it by actual post.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
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 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