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This cohort study examines the risk for opioid overdose associated with the presence of opioids within the household.
This time-series analysis assesses the association of implementation of postoverdose outreach programs with opioid fatality rates in Massachusetts municipalities with high numbers of opioid-related medical emergency services responses.
This viewpoint discusses and suggests clinical interventions to be implemented by clinicians and health systems in North America to reduce opioid overdose deaths among at-risk patients.
This cohort study involves assessing causes of death among people experiencing homelessness in Boston from 2003 to 2018.
This JAMA Patient Page describes lead poisoning, its health effects, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention measures.
This study examines the available data used to surveil state-level drug overdoses and characterizes them based on their timeliness, drug involvement, and specification of nonfatal outcomes.
This interrupted time-series analysis uses data from the National Inpatient Sample and the Acute Liver Failure Study Group to assess the odds of hospitalization and the proportion of acute liver failure cases with acetaminophen and opioid toxicity prior to and after the US Food and Drug Administration mandate to limit acetaminophen (paracetamol) to 325 mg/tablet in combination acetaminophen and opioid medications.
This cross-sectional study calculates years of life lost to drug overdose in non-Hispanic Black female individuals and describes the changes in years of life lost that have occurred during the current overdose crisis.
This quality improvement study examines blood alcohol concentrations in premature infants and evaporated alcohol concentrations within neonatal incubators before and after implementation of a practice limiting exposure of the infants to alcohol disinfectants.
This cohort study examines the incidence of bradycardia occurring during or after administration of remdesivir in patients with COVID-19 through the US Food and Drug Administration American College of Medical Toxicology COVID-19 Toxic (FACT) Pharmacovigilance Project.
This cross-sectional study assesses changes in pregnancy-associated mortality from drug overdose, homicide, suicide, and other causes in the US from 2018 through 2020.
This cross-sectional study investigates the prevalence of alcohol in unintentional opioid overdose deaths in Illinois from 2017 through 2020.
This cohort study assesses the level of telehealth implementation and its outcomes among office-based clinicians who provide outpatient opioid use disorder care.
This cross-sectional study assesses whether buprenorphine-involved overdose deaths changed after implementing more flexible prescription policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights characteristics and circumstances of these deaths
This cross-sectional study uses population data to evaluate the association of pediatric hospitalizations for cannabis poisoning with legalization of edible cannabis products in Canada.
This JAMA Patient Page describes fentanyl and illicit fentanyl analogues, and the common signs and symptoms of fentanyl overdose, its treatment, and overdose prevention measures.
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the effect of prescriber notifications of a patient’s fatal overdose on opioid prescribing, including decreases in morphine milligram equivalents, new patients taking opioids, and patients taking a high dose, at 4 to 12 months after notification.
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