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
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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
reports chosen for each diagnosis
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- A place-based spatial analysis of racial inequities in overdose in St. Louis County Missouri, United Statesby Phillip L Marotta on November 3, 2024
CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that places of worship, the hospitality industry, and housing authorities may be physical features of the environment that reflect social conditions that are conducive to overdose. The scaling up of harm reduction strategies could be enhanced by targeting places where features are co-located.
- An examination of Black-White disparities in repeat nonfatal opioid overdose incidents, fatal drug overdose, and all-cause mortality in Detroit, Michiganby Grant Victor on November 3, 2024
CONCLUSION: There is a high risk of fatal drug overdose in the two-years following a nonfatal opioid overdose, and a greater risk of repeated NFOO. Black individuals' mortality was associated with non-overdose causes, despite being associated with experiencing a significantly greater number of nonfatal overdoses. Widespread implementation of overdose prevention and general medical care is warranted to curb NFOO and allcause mortality.
- Sex Differences in Methamphetamine Mortality in the United States: Heroin and Fentanyl Co-Involvement, 1999 - 2021by Tonazzina H Sauda on November 3, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: Increasing methamphetamine-related mortality among males and females has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the proportion of heroin and/or synthetic opioid co-involvement among both sexes. Robust harm reduction efforts are needed to mitigate these increases, particularly for people who co-use stimulants and opioids.
- Take-home naloxone in multicentre emergency settings: the TIME feasibility cluster RCTby Helen Snooks on November 2, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: This study did not meet progression criteria for intervention or trial methods feasibility, so outcomes were not followed up and a fully powered trial is not planned.