Pilot randomized controlled trial of a brief strategy to prevent suicide after discharge from residential addiction treatment - Kenneally L, Stevens S, Cornelius S, Shiner B, Rice K, Park J, Watts B, Teja N, Riblet N.
INTRODUCTION: Veterans are at greater risk for suicide and veterans with substance use disorder (SUD) have an even greater risk. Little research has looked into brief interventions to prevent suicide in this population in residential substance use treatmen...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Prevalence of xylazine in overdose cases: an analysis of Miami-Dade County medical examiner case data - Potoukian RB, Gonyea J, Shoff EN, Hime GW, Moore DM.
Xylazine sedative, muscle relaxant, and analgesic used in a veterinary setting. Although xylazine was never approved for therapeutic use in humans, it has become popular in the street drug market as a cutting or bulking agent in the fentanyl and heroin sup...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Recreational cannabis use over time in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: lack of associations with symptom, neurocognitive, functioning, and treatment patterns - Carri ón RE, Auther AM, McLaughlin D, Adelsheim S, Burton CZ, Carter CS, Niendam T, Ragland JD, Sale TG, Taylor SF, Tso IF, McFarlane WR, Cornblatt BA.
Recreational cannabis use has recently gained considerable interest as an environmental risk factor that triggers the onset of psychosis. To date, however, the evidence that cannabis is associated with negative outcomes in individuals at clinical high risk...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Recreational nitrous oxide-induced injury to the soft palate - Rowson AC, Yii MX, Tan HB, Prasad J.
Frostbite arising from nitrous oxide (N(2)O) inhalation is rare. As such, there is no consensus on best treatment for these injuries. In all published reports, judicious use of corticosteroids and antibiotics has resulted in positive clinical outcomes; we ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Severe arsenic poisoning due to Ayurvedic supplements - Hardin J, Seltzer J, Suhandynata R, Spiegel B, Silver R, Thomas D, Galust H, Friedman N, Clark R, Momper J.
Key Clinical Message Patients that are taking Ayurvedic supplements have an increased risk of heavy metal toxicity. Lead, arsenic, and mercury are frequently identified in these supplements and can cause clinically significant toxicity. Clinicians should s...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Smoke alarm - Wickelgren I.
As states relax their laws on cannabis, neuroscientist Yasmin Hurd is warning about the drug's dangers for the developing brain. One morning in June, barely 5 months after the first dispensary for recreational cannabis opened in New York state, neurosc...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Substance use disorders among African-American men in the rural south: a scoping review - Wandji SR, Abshire DA, Davis JE, Tavakoli AS, Pope R.
African American (AA) men in the rural South may be at high risk for experiencing adverse health outcomes from substance use (SU). We conducted a scoping review to explore the research on SU among rural AA men in the rural South of the United States (US). ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Substance use disorders refresh: nonopioid substance use disorders - Zhao N, Jorgensen S, Dixon LB.
[The publisher has not provided an abstract for this article.] Language: en...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Suicide deaths and substance use in the Galician provinces between 2006 and 2020 - Fl órez G, Espandian A, Llorens N, Seoane-Pillado T, Saiz P.
BACKGROUND: Suicide is a serious public health problem that affects our entire country, including the Galician provinces. The aim of this research was to study the variation in completed suicide rates, between 2006 and 2020, in the different Galician provi...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Systematic review of naloxone dosing and adverse events in the emergency department - Yugar B, McManus K, Ramdin C, Nelson LS, Parris MA.
BACKGROUND: Experts recommend using the lowest effective dose of naloxone to balance the reversal of opioid-induced respiratory depression and avoid precipitated opioid withdrawal, however, there is no established dosing standards within the emergency depa...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

The association between social fragmentation and deaths attributable to alcohol, drug use, and suicide: longitudinal evidence from a population-based sample of Canadian adults - Hunter S, Farmer G, Benny C, Smith BT, Pabayo R.
BACKGROUND: Social fragmentation has been theorized and empirically associated with suicide in prior research. However, less is known about whether social fragmentation is associated with deaths attributed to alcohol use or drug use. This research examined...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

The development of a Cannabis Knowledge Assessment Tool (CKAT) - Bayat A, Mansell H, Taylor J, Szafron M, Mansell K.
BACKGROUND: Misconceptions about the health risks of cannabis remain prevalent, indicating the need to improve public health messaging and determine the effectiveness of educational programming. Our objective was to develop a standardized questionnaire to ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

The link between drug dependency and criminality: a systematic review - Tharshini NK, Ibrahim F.
Drug dependency is a complex and challenging condition that is strongly associated with increased criminal activity. The present review using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines summarized the link bet...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Using linked data to identify pathways of reporting overdose events in British Columbia, 2015-2017 - Graham E, Zhao B, Flynn M, Gustafson P, Irvine MA, Slaunwhite A, Orpana H, Kuo M, MacDougall L.
INTRODUCTION: Overdose events related to illicit opioids and other substances are a public health crisis in Canada. The BC Provincial Overdose Cohort is a collection of linked datasets identifying drug-related toxicity events, including death, ambulance, e...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Toxicological analysis in victims of sexual and domestic violence: a retrospective study of a 3-year period (2018-2020) - Di Candia D, Franceschetti L, Giordano G, Merelli VG, Attisano GL, Boracchi M, Barbara G, Kustermann A, Cattaneo C.
This manuscript presents an epidemiological investigation carried out on abuse victims who accessed the Sexual and Domestic Violence Service (SVS&D) of IRCCS Ca' Granda in Milan, Italy. The focal point of this research was the detection of alcohol, prescri...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

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