opioids

Association of Opioid Use with Pain and Satisfaction after Dental Extraction

Scientific article

13 March 2020

Opioid prescriptions increased by 68% from 2010 to 2016 for new dental procedures among people not previously prescribed opioids. This study sheds light on the potential of unnecessary prescribing of opioids for dental procedures especially...

Long Term Change among People who Inject Drugs

Scientific article

22 July 2019

The link is to Recovery Research Institute's summary of the findings from this long term longitudinal study of injection drug users in Vancouver Canada. It reports that there are five different trajectories for people who inject drugs...

14th European Congress on Heroin Addiction & Related Clinical Problems

19 March 2020

Grenoble

EUROPAD exists to improve the lives of opiate misusers and their families and to reduce the impact of illicit drug use on society as a whole.

NAM Action Collaborative Webinar on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

10 March 2020

Washington DC

United States

Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM EDT (the US)

Viewing the Opioid Epidemic in Rural Communities through the Lens of Prevention

17 March 2020

Washington

United States

Join the Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST

Exploring Opioid Overdose Incidence in a Cohort of People Who Inject Drugs

20 February 2020

Sydney

Australia

Opioid overdose is a significant public health issue, with people who inject drugs (PWID) a key risk group. However, there is little contemporary information on opioid overdose incidence in Australia and limited evidence of the impact of factors affecting incidence among PWID. Further evidence on the risk and protective factors of an opioid overdose will help determine how to prevent these overdoses from occurring.

Prevention Plus Wellness Youth and Teacher Resources

Website

13 January 2020

Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) provides easy to use evidence-informed resources to help prevention and health specialists and parents prevent youth and young adult alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, e-cigarette, and opioid use while promoting...

Opioid Use Disorder: A Nature Reviews Primer

Book

8 January 2020

Abstract | Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a chronic relapsing disorder that, whilst initially driven by activation of brain reward neurocircuits, increasingly engages anti-reward neurocircuits that drive adverse emotional states and relapse...

IOTOD 2020 Conference

18 May 2020

Amsterdam

The IOTOD conference offers a range of exciting and interactive sessions, involving thought-provoking talks and expert-led panel discussions.

Associations between National Development Indicators and the Age Profile of People who Inject Drugs: Results from a Global Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Book

31 January 2020

Abstract: Background Globally, an estimated 15·6 million people inject drugs. We aimed to investigate global variation in the age profile of people who inject drugs (PWID), identify country-level factors associated with age of PWID, and...