USA. Methadone and buprenorphine reduce risk of death after opioid overdose - NIH research confirms effective treatments for opioid use disorder are underutilized.  A National Institutes of Health-funded study found that treatment of opioid us…

Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit This toolkit offers strategies to health care providers, communities, and local governments for developing practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Access reports for community m…

The Effect of Incomplete Death Certificates on Estimates of Unintentional Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2015  Jeanine M. Buchanich, PhD, MEd, Lauren C. Balmert, PhD, Karl E. Williams, MD, MPH, and Donald S. Burke, M…

Causes of Death After Nonfatal Opioid Overdose.  Olfson M, Crystal S, Wall M, Wang S, Liu S, Blanco C.  JAMA Psychiatry.Published online June 20, 2018. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.1471 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry…

Ageing opioid users’ increased risk of methadone-specific death in the UK Pierce, Matthias et al. International Journal of Drug Policy , Volume 55 , 121 - 127 https://www.ijdp.org/article/S0955-3959(18)30040-9/fulltext

USA. Notes from the Field: Acute Poisonings from a Synthetic Cannabinoid Sold as Cannabidiol — Utah, 2017–2018.  Horth RZ, Crouch B, Horowitz BZ, et al.  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2018;67:587–588. doi.org/10.15585/mmwr…