Characterization of hospitalized patients who received naloxone while receiving opioids with or without gabapentinoids.  Desai PH, Taylor O, Shah KJ, Evoy KE, Peckham AM.  Ment Health Clin. 2021 Jul 16;11(4):225-230. doi: 10.9740/mhc.202…

Community Case Study of Naloxone Distribution by Hospital-Based Harm Reduction Program for People Who Use Drugs in New York City.  Riazi F, Toribio W, Irani E, Hughes TM, Huxley-Reicher Z, McBratney E, Vu T, Sigel K, Weiss JJ.  Front Soc…

Associations between Naloxone Prescribing and Opioid Overdose among Patients with Acute and Chronic Pain Conditions. Qeadan, F., and Madden, E. F. (2021)  Addiction, doi.org/10.1111/add.15643.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…

Are opioid receptor antagonists adequate for “Opioid” overdose in a changing reality?. Peppin, JF, Pergolizzi, JV, Dahan, A, Raffa, RB. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2021; 46: 861– 866. doi.org/10.1111/jcpt.13320  htt…

Study to prevent deaths from opioid overdose shows promising results A study undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine has shown that training people most likely to witness an opioid overdose and providing them with naloxone, a d…

USA. The US Faces a Naloxone Shortage at the Worst Possible Time Life expectancy in the United States plunged by a year and a half in 2020, the worst year-on-year change since World War II. Drug overdoses were the second-most influential factor, be…