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 This month, unfortunately, an unpublished paper of very poor methodology with multiple major errors got a lot of attention.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 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 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 February-May 2017
Sorry this took so long. This was partly due to my schedule and partly because we’ve been in a process of transitioning to PrescribeToPrevent. You can thank those unnamed persons who reached out to me asking when the next installment was coming for avoiding a much greater delay! 108 articles in four months. TheRead More
PubMed Update October/November 2016
43 papers this round, and there are some goodies in here for sure (don’t miss #38!). Given the number and varied issues addressed, I divided them up into topic areas and, given the number on naloxone, I divided up the naloxone topic areas as well. Naloxone interventions Primary care 1) Co-prescription of naloxone as aRead More
PubMed Update May 2016
19 this month. Enjoy! 1) Methadone-Related Overdose Deaths in a Liberal Opioid Maintenance Treatment Programme. Tjagvad C, Skurtveit S, Linnet K, Andersen LV, Christoffersen DJ, Clausen T. Eur Addict Res. 2016 Jun 1;22(5):249-258. [Epub ahead of print] Comments: Patients on very high doses of methadone or also using benzodiazepines were at higher risk of death.Read More
PubMed Update June – July 2015
Great stuff this time! 34 in two months. Opioid OverdosePrevention Programs Providing Naloxoneto Laypersons – United States, 2014. Wheeler E, Jones TS, Gilbert MK, Davidson PJ. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 Jun 19;64(23):631-5. Comment: The long-awaited sequel to 2010’s blockbuster naloxone MMWR report! 152,283 laypersons trained and 26,463 overdose reversals reported to naloxone programs through 2014.Read More
PubMed Update May/June 2014
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 January 2014
10 papers this month, half of which relate to the United Kingdom. We continue to move forward. 1) Characterization of opioid overdose and response in a high-risk community corrections sample: A preliminary study. Cropsey KL, Martin S, Clark CB, McCullumsmith CB, Lane PS, Hardy S, Hendricks PS, Redmond N. J Opioid Manag. 2013 Nov-Dec;9(6):393-400. Comments: Valuable surveyRead More