overdose

Final Report: Opioid Use, Misuse, and Overdose in Women

Book

19 July 2017

Executive Summary This report was developed as part of an initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office on Women’s Health (OWH) to examine prevention, treatment, and recovery issues for women who misuse opioids...

The Role of Science in Addressing the Opioid Crisis

Scientific article

27 July 2017

Opioid misuse and addiction is an ongoing and rapidly evolving public health crisis, requiring innovative scientific solutions. In response, and because no existing medication is ideal for every patient, the National Institutes of Health...

SAMHSA Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit

Book

25 January 2016

This toolkit offers strategies to health care providers, communities, and local governments for developing practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Access reports for community members, prescribers...

New Data on Opioid Use and Prescribing in the United States

Scientific article

6 July 2017

The United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. Between 1999 and 2010, prescription opioid–related overdose deaths increased substantially in parallel with increased prescribing of opioids. In 2015, opioid-involved drug...

Characteristics of Fentanyl Overdose — Massachusetts, 2014–2016

Scientific article

13 April 2017

Summary What is already known about this topic? Fentanyl has a growing presence in the illicit drug market and is involved in an increasing proportion of opioid overdose deaths. What is added by this report? Approximately two thirds of...

Overdose Antidote Takes Harm-Reduction Centre Stage

Book

27 March 2017

One of our selection of hot topics, analyses of important issues which sometimes generate heated debate. Programmes distributing the opiate overdose antidote naloxone have become the great new hope for curbing the rise in drug-related...

Opioids Linked to Increase in Cocaine-Related Overdose Deaths

News

Heroin and synthetic opioids are propelling an upsurge of late in cocaine-related overdose deaths. This is according to a national survey carried out by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) amongst other drug...

Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A Look at America’s Opioid Crisis

News

The New York Times article traces the impact of America's opioid epidemic on Americans of all backgrounds throughout the country. Photos depict the human face of a tragedy that is taking too many lives.

Purple Drank: The New Drug of Choice for French Teenagers?

News

A news item currently trending in the French press concerns the alarming increase in consumption amongst French teenagers of a drink most commonly known as ‘purple drank’, but also referred to as ‘lean’ or ‘sizzurp’. Le Monde first reported...

Canadian Opioid Conference

18 November 2016

Ottawa

Canada

The growing number of overdoses and deaths caused by opioids, including fentanyl, is a national concern in Canada. Solutions must be compassionate and collaborative, and address both the immediate crisis of overdose and death as well as their root causes.