ArticleAddictive behaviors2020
A latent class analysis of drug and substance use patterns among patients treated in emergency departments for suspected drug overdose.
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- Latent class analysis of emergency department patients engaged in telehealth peer recovery support services and associations of identified classes with post-discharge outcomes.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
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- Differential risks of syringe service program participants in Central Ohio: a latent class analysis.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
- Patterns of opioid use behaviors among patients seen in the emergency department: Latent class analysis of baseline data from the POINT pragmatic trial.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Article
- Drug Overdose Patterns Among Emergency Department Patients at an Academic Hospital in Jeddah.Cureus · 2023Article
- Association of polysubstance use disorder with treatment quality among Medicaid beneficiaries with opioid use disorder.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2023Article
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- Alcohol use in adolescence as a risk factor for overdose in the 1986 Northern Finland Birth Cohort Study.European journal of public health · 2022Article
- Prevalences of and characteristics associated with single- and polydrug-involved U.S. Emergency Department Visits in 2018.Addictive behaviors · 2022Article
- Patterns of substance use before and after hospitalization among patients seen by an inpatient addiction consult service: A latent transition analysis.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2020Article
- Nonfatal Drug and Polydrug Overdoses Treated in Emergency Departments - 29 States, 2018-2019.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2020Article
- Two latent classes of diagnostic and treatment procedures among traumatic brain injury inpatients.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionPolysubstance use and misuse can increase risks for nonfatal and fatal drug overdose. To categorize drugs used in combination in nonfatal overdoses, we analyzed data from emergency department (ED) overdose-related visits in 18 states funded by CDC's Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) program.
methodsFrom 2017 to 2018, 120,706 ED visits included at least one hospital discharge code indicating acute drug poisoning for opioids, stimulants, hallucinogens, cannabis, anti-depressants, sedatives, alcohol, benzodiazepines, or other psychotropic drugs. Latent class analyses were conducted to determine the groupings of drug combinations in overdose visits.
resultsLatent class analyses indicated a model of 5 classes - mostly heroin overdose (42.5% of visits); mostly non-heroin opioid overdose/use (27.3%); opioid, polysubstance (11.0%); female, younger (<25 years), other non-opioid drugs (10.5%); female, older (>55 years), benzodiazepine (8.0%). Findings indicated that heroin continues to be a large burden to EDs, yet EDs are also seeing overdose survivors with polydrug toxicity.
conclusionsMedication-assisted treatment could be initiated in the emergency department following overdose for patients with opioid use disorder, and post-overdose protocols, such as naloxone provision and linkage to treatment and harm reduction services, have the potential to prevent future overdose for those at risk.
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