What impact does opioid agonist treatment have on mortality at a population level?  Matthew Hickman, Annick Borquez and Louisa Degenhardt on using linked government data to demonstrate that opioid agonist treatments for opioid dependence – suc…

Kanada. Public Safety and Solicitor General: Ten thousand lives lost to illicit drugs since declaration of public health emergency At least 1,095 British Columbians are believed to have been lost to the toxic drug supply between January and June 20…

Effect of a Peer-Led Behavioral Intervention for Emergency Department Patients at High Risk of Fatal Opioid Overdose: A Randomized Clinical Trial.  Beaudoin FL, Jacka BP, Li Y, et al.  JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(8):e2225582. doi:10.1001…

Development and Validation of Machine Models Using Natural Language Processing to Classify Substances Involved in Overdose Deaths.  Goodman-Meza D, Shover CL, Medina JA, Tang AB, Shoptaw S, Bui AAT.  JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(8):e2225593. d…

Briefing: Premature mortality in people affected by co-occurring homelessness, criminal justice involvement, opioid dependence, and psychosis University of Glasgow, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Juli 2022 https://www.gla.ac…

Enhancing research data infrastructure to address the opioid epidemic: the Opioid Overdose Network (O2-Net).  Lenert LA, Zhu V, Jennings L, McCauley JL, Obeid JS, Ward R, Hassanpour S, Marsch LA, Hogarth M, Shipman P, Harris DR, Talbert JC.&nb…