In recent years the incidence of drug overdosage has shown a dramatic increase. At Altnagelvin Hospital adult overdoses account for approximately 1wo of the attendances at the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department and almost 14%o of the acute medical admissions. This hospital is particularly suitable for studying overdosage as it is the only centre treating this problem in the Londonderry, Li...

Estimation 1 Assuming, from the results of many mortality cohort studies (for examples see Table 1 in the Selected issue), that overdose deaths account for between one-third and half of all deaths among problem drug users, the estimated 7 600 overdose deaths in Europe (EMCDDA, 2010, 2011a, b) for 2009 (2) implies an overall mortality of roughly between 15 200 (twice the number of reported overd...

Recent research has shown an association between monthly law enforcement drug seizure events and accidental overdose deaths using cross-sectional data in a single state, whereby increased seizures correlated with more deaths. In this study, we conduct statistical analysis of street-level on seizures, along fatal non-fatal events, to determine possible micro-level causal associations opioid-rela...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to identify factors that may be associated with help-seeking by witnesses during overdoses where naloxone is administered. SETTING Overdose events occurred in and were reported from the five regional health authorities across British Columbia, Canada. Naloxone administration forms completed following overdose events were submitted to the British Columbia Take Home...

BACKGROUND Overdose deaths have increased steadily over the past decade. This report describes drug-related deaths and emergency department (ED) visits among women. METHODS CDC analyzed rates of fatal drug overdoses and drug misuse- or abuse-related ED visits among women using data from the National Vital Statistics System (1999-2010) and the Drug Abuse Warning Network (2004-2010). RESULTS ...

ackground: In September 2003, North America’s first supervised injection facility (SIF) opened in Vancouver, Canada. We sought to examine he incidence and characteristics of overdose events at the SIF. ethods: The Vancouver SIF evaluation involves a comprehensive database within the SIF and the Scientific Evaluation of Supervised njection (SEOSI) cohort consisting of 1046 SIF users. We examined...