Association of Opioid Dose Reduction With Opioid Overdose and Opioid Use Disorder Among Patients Receiving High-Dose, Long-term Opioid Therapy in North Carolina.  DiPrete BL, Ranapurwala SI, Maierhofer CN, et al.  JAMA Netw Open. ...

Trends in Mortality From Novel Psychoactive Substances as “Legal Highs”: Gender Differences in Manner of Death and Implications for Risk Differences for Women Lucy Webb, Xin Shi, Christine Goodair and Survjit Cheeta Front. Psychiatry, 21 April 2...

USA. Overdoses, not COVID-19, drive spike in LA homeless deaths Nearly 2,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles County during the first year of the pandemic, an increase of 56% from the previous year, driven mainly by drug overdoses, authorities...

Identifying the changing age distribution of opioid-related mortality with high-frequency data.  Paul LA, Li Y, Leece P, Gomes T, Bayoumi AM, Herring J, et al. (2022)  PLoS ONE 17(4): e0265509. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265509 htt...

Schottland. For those at risk, isolation can be fatal Evidence is clear that isolation from friends, family and support can place people who use drugs at higher risk of a fatal overdose. Equally, initial case studies have suggested that the distr...

Schottland. Mapping of Overdose Detection and Alert Technologies: A Summary This report is produced by the Overdose Detection and Responder Alert Technologies (ODART) Project, a partnership between the University of Stirling and St Andrews Univer...