Drug-related deaths and mortality in Europe: update from the EMCDDA expert network Summary This report provides an update on drug-related deaths in Europe based primarily on presentations and discussions held at the 2019 meeting of the European Mo…

Poisoning Deaths Associated With Buprenorphine Almost Always Involve Sedatives or Other Opioids Buprenorphine has a favorable safety profile because of its partial agonist and ceiling respiratory depression effects. However, there are poisoning dea…

Australien. Trends in Drug-Induced Deaths in Australia, 1997-2019 Agata Chrzanowska, Nicola Man, Rachel Sutherland, Louisa Degenhardt, and Amy Peacock  National Illicit Drug Indicators Project (NIDIP) Reports, NDARC - The National Drug a…

USA. Overdose Deaths Surged In Pandemic, As More Drugs Were Laced With Fentanyl Researchers gathered for a conference on addiction this week received a grim update on the growing spread of street drugs laced with deadly synthetic opioids including…

USA. San Francisco Contends With a Different Sort of Epidemic: Drug Deaths More people died from overdoses than from the coronavirus in San Francisco last year. Some think the toll, tied to homelessness, should force the city to re-examine its appr…

Co-involvement of opioids in drug overdose deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants.  Hedegaard H, Miniño AM, Warner M.  NCHS Data Brief, no 406. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2021. doi.org/10.15620/cdc:103…