Opioid Overdose
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW143
Diagnosis: Opioid Overdose
US Patients: 110,000 deaths + more with permanent brain damage (2017)
World Patients: 500,000 deaths, world wide
Sex Ratio:
Age Onset:
Brain Area: inadequate oxygen in the brain in the medulla and pons can lead to death or brain damage
Symptoms: Inability to breathe or decreased consciousness can kill.
Progression:
Causes:
Medications: Naloxone has reversed more than 25,000 overdoses by 2014.
Therapies: Used as directed, Lohr’s DVD and Download, “Calming My Pain!” avoidusing opioids for post-surgical or other causes of pain.
Youtube Video:
A Real Life Opioid Overdose
Youtube Video: Addressing Opioid Overdose in the Workplace
Amazon or Library Book: Opioids, Opiates, and Overdose
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Support Group: samhsa.gov; 800-662-4357
(U.S. Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration)
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
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- Association Between Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Use Mandate and Opioid Prescribing and Patient-Reported Outcomes After Surgeryby Kao-Ping Chua on May 8, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: Following implementation of Michigan's PDMP use mandate, the duration of opioid prescriptions decreased, but patient-reported outcomes did not worsen. Findings suggest PDMP use mandates may not be associated with worsened experience among general surgical patients.
- A neuropsychiatric case of delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy from opioid intoxication resulting in Anton-Babinski syndrome and quadriplegiaby Roberto A Cardona Quiñones on May 7, 2024
This is the case of a 26-year-old male who developed Anton Babinski syndrome (ABS), quadriplegia, and delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy (DPHL) after an opioid overdose. He exhibited cortical blindness, visual anosognosia, and confabulation upon awakening. Several days later, he experienced acute psychosis and agitation. T2-FSE MRI revealed extensive supratentorial leukoencephalopathy involving both cerebral hemispheres, extending to the posterior corpus callosum due to cerebral anoxia....
- Associations Between a Primary Care-Delivered Alcohol-Related Brief Intervention and Subsequent Opioid-Related Outcomesby Dan V Blalock on May 6, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: The VA's standard alcohol-related brief intervention is associated with subsequent lower odds of a new opioid prescription or a new OUD diagnosis. Results suggest a reduction in a cascade of new opioid-related outcomes from prescriptions through hospitalizations.
- Vaccines as Immunotherapies for Substance Use Disordersby Thomas R Kosten on May 6, 2024
Substance use disorders (SUD) present a worldwide challenge with few effective therapies except for the relative efficacy of opioid pharmacotherapies, despite limited treatment access. However, the proliferation of illicit fentanyl use initiated a dramatic and cascading epidemic of lethal overdoses. This rise in fentanyl overdoses regenerated an interest in vaccine immunotherapy, which, despite an optimistic start in animal models over the past 50 years, yielded disappointing results in human...