25 papers in two months. Anyone want to help with this? 1) Naloxone therapy in opioid overdose patients: intranasal or intravenous? A randomized clinical trial. Sabzghabaee AM, Eizadi-Mood N, Yaraghi A, Zandifar S. Arch Med Sci. 2014 May 12;10(2):309-14. doi: 10.5114/aoms.2014.42584. Epub 2014 May 13. PMID: 24904666 [PubMed] Free PMC Article Comments: More data toRead 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 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 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 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
Pubmed November 2011 Update
Some good stuff this month… 1) Vital signs: overdoses of prescription opioid pain relievers — United States, 1999–2008 MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Nov 4;60:1487-92. Comment: This report summarizes the impressive outbreak of death from opioid analgesics (around 15,000 in 2008) in the United States – providing a helpful state-by-state breakdown. 2) Influence ofRead More
Pubmed May 2011 Update
[This PubMed update will be a regular post to keep abreast of the latest research. The articles are selected from an automated PubMed search for “heroin overdose”. Today’s post describes two articles pertaining to prescription opioids (or “opioid analgesics”), of growing interest particularly in developed countries with high rates of opioid prescription for pain management.Read More