Increase in Fatal Drug Overdoses Across the United States Driven by Synthetic Opioids Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Distributed via the CDC Health Alert Network, CDCHAN-00438, 17.12.2020 https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2020/han00438.asp

USA. National Roadmap on State-Level Efforts to End the Nation’s Drug Overdose Epidemic Leading-Edge Practices and Next Steps to Remove Barriers to Evidence-Based Patient Care. (AMA – American Medical Asociation, DECEMBER 2020) https://end-overdos…

Immer noch sterben viele Menschen an den Folgen opioidhaltiger Drogen Berlin – 2019 verstarben 1.398 Menschen an den Folgen des Konsums illegaler Drogen. Für fast die Hälfte der Fälle sind Opioidvergiftungen ursächlich. Das gab heute die Deutsche B…

Polysubstance Involvement in Opioid Overdose Deaths in Adolescents and Young Adults, 1999-2018.  Lim JK, Earlywine JJ, Bagley SM, Marshall BDL, Hadland SE.  JAMA Pediatr. Published online November 23, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.202…

Deaths of despair: cause-specific mortality and socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality among young men in Scotland.  Allik, M., Brown, D., Dundas, R. et al. Int J Equity Health 19, 215 (2020). doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01329-…

"It's an emotional roller coaster… But sometimes it's fucking awesome": Meaning and motivation of work for peers in overdose response environments in British Columbia.  Pauly BB, Mamdani Z, Mesley L, McKenzie S, Cameron F, Edwards D, Howell A…