Assessing the reach and engagement with the 'How To Save A Life' mass media campaign on drug-related death prevention in Scotland.  Anderson M, Atkinson AM, McAuley A, Sumnall HR, Glancy ME, Bloomfield HA, Trayner KMA.  Drugs (Abingdon E…

Time Course of Reversal of Fentanyl-Induced Respiratory Depression in Healthy Subjects by Intramuscular Nalmefene and Intramuscular and Intranasal Naloxone.  Cipriano A, Apseloff G, Kapil RP, He E, Shet M, Harris SC.  J Clin Pharmacol. 2…

Synthetic opioids have disrupted conventional wisdom for treating opioid overdose.  Skolnick P, Paavola J, Heidbreder C.  Drug Alcohol Depend Rep. 2024 Aug 13;12:100268. doi: 10.1016/j.dadr.2024.100268. PMID: 39262668; PMCID: PMC11388010…

Mechanistic pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modeling and simulations of naloxone auto-injector 10 mg reversal of opioid-induced respiratory depression.  Yang TE, Del Bene F, Lavezzi SM, Iavarone L, Zhang J, Kim J, Gjurich B, Kessler C. …

Nürnberg. Gesundheitsamt schult für Kampf gegen den Drogentod In Nürnberg sinkt die Zahl der Drogentoten. Starben 2019 noch 34 Menschen an einer Überdosis, waren es im letzten Jahr nur noch knapp die Hälfte davon (16 Drogentote). Im laufenden Jahr…

Rescue Breathing, a Crucial Overdose Response, Is Still Underused If you pay attention to the news, you’ve likely heard of naloxone, the medication that can reverse an opioid overdose. But naloxone (commonly distributed as Narcan) is not the only t…