26 this month. I’m going to call out paper #3 because I think it’s super important. 1) High buprenorphine-related mortality is persistent in Finland. Kriikku P, Häkkinen M, Ojanperä I. Forensic Sci Int. 2018 Aug 17;291:76-82. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.08.010. [Epub ahead of print] Comments: This is an interesting topic. Finland seems to have a lot ofRead More
PubMed Update July 2018
37 papers for July. Ok – now I’m up to date! 1)Using routinely collected data to understand and predict adverse outcomes in opioid agonist treatment: Protocol for the Opioid Agonist Treatment Safety (OATS) Study. Larney S, Hickman M, Fiellin DA, Dobbins T, Nielsen S, Jones NR, Mattick RP, Ali R, Degenhardt L. BMJ Open.Read More
PubMed Update March-June 2018
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 December 2017 – January 2018
57 for the past two months, from new ways to look at medical examiner data to an unfortunate complication of resuscitation. The fentanyl papers are at the end, as are a couple papers each addressing safe consumption spaces and opioid reformulations. 1) Wearable Biosensors to Evaluate Recurrent Opioid Toxicity After Naloxone Administration: A Hilbert Transform Approach.Read More
PubMed Update November 2017
In honor of the impending New Year … we have 38 papers for you in just one month! There’s some sophisticated work here – innovative epidemiology, interventions, and reviews of overdose. We’ve come a long way from the 1990s, but clearly not quickly enough for the dynamic urgency of this issue. 1) Safety andRead 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