A Case for Experiential Expertise in Opioid Overdose Surveillance.

Apostolos A Alexandridis, Maya Doe-Simkins, Gregory Scott

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Article in American journal of public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

3citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

Looking into the black mirror of the overdose crisis: Assessing the harms of collaborative surveillance technologies in the United States response.Medical anthropology quarterly · 2025
Article
Between Care and Control: Examining Surveillance Practices in Harm Reduction.Contemporary drug problems · 2023
Article
"We have to be uncomfortable and creative": Reflections on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on overdose prevention, harm reduction & homelessness advocacy in Philadelphia.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2021
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Commented on by
Nesoff et al. Comment.2020
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The Geographic Distribution of Fentanyl-Involved Overdose Deaths in Cook County, Illinois.2020

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Apostolos A AlexandridisApostolos A. Alexandridis is with the US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD. Maya Doe-Simkins and Gregory Scott are with the Chicago Recovery Alliance, Chicago, IL. Gregory Scott is also with the Department of Sociology, DePaul University, Chicago.

Maya Doe-SimkinsApostolos A. Alexandridis is with the US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD. Maya Doe-Simkins and Gregory Scott are with the Chicago Recovery Alliance, Chicago, IL. Gregory Scott is also with the Department of Sociology, DePaul University, Chicago.

Gregory ScottApostolos A. Alexandridis is with the US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD. Maya Doe-Simkins and Gregory Scott are with the Chicago Recovery Alliance, Chicago, IL. Gregory Scott is also with the Department of Sociology, DePaul University, Chicago.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Drug OverdoseSubstance-Related DisordersFentanylHumansIllinoisNaloxoneFentanylNaloxone

Identifiers

PMID32159987

DOI10.2105/AJPH.2019.305502

PMCPMC7067085

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