ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2020
Mortality Following Nonfatal Opioid and Sedative/Hypnotic Drug Overdose.
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- Sex-Specific Risk Profiles for Suicide Among Persons with Substance Use Disorders in Denmark.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Article
- Socioeconomic correlates of incident and fatal opioid overdose among Swedish people with opioid use disorder.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2021Article
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- Association of Sleep Duration and Working Hours with Suicidal Ideation in Shift Workers: The Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007-2018.Psychiatry investigation · 2021Article
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- Causes of death among U.S. Veterans with a prior nonfatal opioid overdose.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionOpioid and sedative/hypnotic drug overdoses are major causes of morbidity in the U.S. This study compares 12-month incidence of fatal unintentional drug overdose, suicide, and other mortality among emergency department patients presenting with nonfatal opioid or sedative/hypnotic overdose.
methodsThis is a retrospective cohort study using statewide, longitudinally linked emergency department patient record and mortality data from California. Participants comprised all residents presenting to a licensed emergency department at least once in 2009-2011 with nonfatal unintentional opioid overdose, sedative/hypnotic overdose, or neither (a 5% random sample). Participants were followed for 1 year after index emergency department presentation to assess death from unintentional overdose, suicide, or other causes, ascertained using ICD-10 codes. Absolute death rates per 100,000 person years and standardized mortality ratios relative to the general population were calculated. Data were analyzed February-August 2019.
resultsFollowing the index emergency department visit, unintentional overdose death rates per 100,000 person years were 1,863 following opioid overdose, 342 following sedative/hypnotic overdose, and 31 for reference patients without an index overdose (respective standardized mortality ratios of 106.1, 95% CI=95.2, 116.9; 24.5, 95% CI=21.3, 27.6; and 2.6, 95% CI=2.2, 3.0). Suicide mortality rates per 100,000 were 319, 174, and 32 following opioid overdose, sedative/hypnotic overdose, and reference visits, respectively. Natural causes mortality rates per 100,000 were 8,058 (opioid overdose patients), 17,301 (sedative/hypnotic overdose patients), and 3,097 (reference patients).
conclusionsEmergency department patients with nonfatal opioid or sedative/hypnotic drug overdose have exceptionally high risks of death from unintentional overdose, suicide, and other causes. Emergency department-based interventions offer potential for reducing these patients' overdose and other mortality risks.
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