15 papers this month.
Dodington
J, Violano P, Baum CR, Bechtel K.
Pediatr Res. 2016 Sep 27.
doi: 10.1038/pr.2016.193. [Epub ahead of print] Review.
Comment: Review
of safety efforts in public health.
Behar E,
Rowe C, Santos GM, Murphy S, Coffin PO.
Ann Fam Med. 2016
Sep;14(5):431-6. doi: 10.1370/afm.1972.
Comment: This
is a partner paper to the study
results reported a couple of months ago. Mixed methods interviews with 60
randomly selected patients on longterm opioid therapy for chronic pain who had
been prescribed naloxone. The co-prescribing effort reached a population that
was not really accessing naloxone through other community distribution sites in
San Francisco. Some reported improved safety with opioids since receiving
naloxone and none reported more high-risk use behaviors. About half of those
who had overdosed denied “overdose” and described it as a bad reaction.
Dunn KE,
Barrett FS, Yepez-Laubach C, Meyer AC, Hruska BJ, Petrush K, Berman S, Sigmon
SC, Fingerhood M, Bigelow GE.
J Subst Abuse Treat. 2016
Dec;71:1-7.
Comment: Can’t
access the paper, but the abstract suggests higher rates of overdose among
rural drug users versus urban, while there were fewer overdose risk behaviors
among rural users (potentially raising concerns about our risk behaviors, which
were retrospectively developed).
Scott N,
Carrotte ER, Higgs P, Cogger S, Stoové MA, Aitken CK, Dietze PM.
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2016 Sep 11;168:140-146. doi:
10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.08.638. [Epub ahead of print]
Comment: People
who inject drugs have more psychological distress than the general population.
Not surprised that intentional overdose (i.e. suicide attempt) is associated
with psychological distress.
Klar SA,
Brodkin E, Gibson E, Padhi S, Predy C, Green C, Lee V.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep.
2016 Sep 23;65(37):1015-1016. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6537a6.
Comment: Fentanyl
in crack. Ugh.