Introduction Although Marin County ranks as the healthiest county in California, it ranks poorly in substance abuse indicators, including drug overdose mortality.1 Death certificates do not always include specific detail on the substances involved in a drug overdose.2 This lack of specificity makes it difficult to identify public health issues related to specific prescription drugs in our commu...

Previous research has found that adolescents' statements about an overdose do not correlate well with their actions. This study examined the Beck Suicide Intent scale, which questions adolescents on their actions surrounding an overdose and on their beliefs as to its seriousness, in 50 adolescents after an overdose. The correlation between actions and belief was only 0.24. A factor analysis of ...

There is an association between intravenous drug use and increased risk of death due to overdose. This article reports on the evaluation of a health promotion programme to educate drug users on preventing an overdose and how to deal with an overdose if it occurs.

We present the design and implementation of OverDoSe, an overlay network offering generic DDoS protection for targeted sites. OverDoSe clients and servers are isolated at the IP level. Overlay nodes route packets between a client and a server, and regulate traffic according to the server’s instructions. Through the use of light-weight security primitives, OverDoSe achieves resilience against co...

BACKGROUND There are few data relating to sirolimus overdose in the medical literature. Our objectives were to describe all cases of overdose with sirolimus reported to Swiss, German and Austrian Poisons Centres between 2002-2013. METHODS An observational case-series analysis was performed to determine circumstances, magnitude, management and outcome of sirolimus overdose. RESULTS Five case...

Tramadol is used in treatment of moderate to severe pain. Nowadays tramadol overdose is one of the common emergencies. Naloxone is an antagonist which is used as a first step of treatment in these patients. This study was designed to evaluate the seizurogenic effects of naloxone in tramadol overdose. A number of 124 patients with the diagnosis of tramadol overdose were divided to receive low-do...

A suburban Ontario community hospital encountered 21 +/- 1 overdoses of children's multiple vitamins yearly between 1978 and 1981. Of these, 35% involved one particular cartoon character preparation. Parents were surveyed to determine whether this particular preparation resulted in a disproportionate number of accidental overdoses. However, the use of vitamins with a cartoon character format di...

OBJECTIVES Drug overdose is the second leading cause of accidental deaths among U.S. adults aged 15-64 years. Emergency physicians have a unique opportunity to provide overdose prevention interventions, because habitual drug users are in frequent need of medical care. The authors evaluated associations between individual-level risk factors and experiencing an overdose in the past six months to ...

OBJECTIVE To study the association between benzodiazepine prescribing patterns including dose, type, and dosing schedule and the risk of death from drug overdose among US veterans receiving opioid analgesics. DESIGN Case-cohort study. SETTING Veterans Health Administration (VHA), 2004-09. PARTICIPANTS US veterans, primarily male, who received opioid analgesics in 2004-09. All veterans who...