Association between discontinuing chronic opioid therapy and newly diagnosed substance use disorders, accidents, self-inflicted injuries and drug overdoses within the prescribers' health care system: a retrospective cohort study.  Hayes CJ, Kr…

Kanada. Nearly 1 in 3 employees to die from an opioid overdose works in construction. Is the industry doing enough to confront the crisis? Amid a surge of fatal overdoses, Ontario’s construction industry is taking steps to raise awareness of the st…

Epidemiological trends in opioid-only and opioid/polysubstance-related death rates among American Indian/Alaska Native populations from 1999 to 2019: a retrospective longitudinal ecological study Qeadan F, Madden EF, Mensah NA, et al BMJ Open 2022…

Treatment of overdose in the synthetic opioid era.  Skolnick P.  Pharmacol Ther. 2022 May;233:108019. doi: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2021.108019. Epub 2021 Oct 9. PMID: 34637841. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S01637258210…

Association of Opioid Dose Reduction With Opioid Overdose and Opioid Use Disorder Among Patients Receiving High-Dose, Long-term Opioid Therapy in North Carolina.  DiPrete BL, Ranapurwala SI, Maierhofer CN, et al.  JAMA Netw Open. 20…

Trends in Mortality From Novel Psychoactive Substances as “Legal Highs”: Gender Differences in Manner of Death and Implications for Risk Differences for Women Lucy Webb, Xin Shi, Christine Goodair and Survjit Cheeta Front. Psychiatry, 21 April 202…