Catch and release: evaluating the safety of non-fatal heroin overdose management in the out-of-hospital environment

Novel Synthetic Opioids and Overdose Deaths: Tip of the Iceberg?

(2018) Michael H Baumann et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The attribution of a death to heroin: A model to help improve the consistent and transparent classification and reporting of heroin-related deaths

(2017) Nathan C. Stam et al.   FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

Misuse of Novel Synthetic Opioids

(2017) Matthew P. Prekupec et al.   Journal of Addiction Medicine

Qualitative Identification of Fentanyl Analogs and Other Opioids in Postmortem Cases by UHPLC-Ion Trap-MSn

(2017) Elisa N. Shoff et al.   JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL TOXICOLOGY

Addressing the Fentanyl Threat to Public Health

(2017) Richard G. Frank et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Fatal Fentanyl: One Pill Can Kill

(2016) Mark E. Sutter et al.   ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Do heroin overdose patients require observation after receiving naloxone?

(2016) Michael W. Willman et al.   CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY

Death matters: understanding heroin/opiate overdose risk and testing potential to prevent deaths

(2015) John Strang   ADDICTION

Understanding Heroin Overdose: A Study of the Acute Respiratory Depressant Effects of Injected Pharmaceutical Heroin

(2015) Caroline J. Jolley et al.   PLoS One

Understanding the availability, prevalence of use, desired effects, acute toxicity and dependence potential of the novel opioid MT-45

(2014) Sindhu Siddiqi et al.   CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY

Long-term stability of morphine, codeine, and 6-acetylmorphine in real-life whole blood samples, stored at −20°C

(2014) Gudrun Høiseth et al.   FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

Underrepresentation of Heroin Involvement in Unintentional Drug Overdose Deaths in Allegheny County, PA

(2014) Kristen J. Mertz et al.   JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES

PLASMA LEVEL MONITORING OF THE MAJOR METABOLITES OF DIACETYLMORPHINE (HEROIN) BY THE “CHASING THE DRAGON” ROUTE IN SEVERE HEROIN ADDICTS

(2014) N Dubois et al.   ACTA CLINICA BELGICA

Levels of heroin and its metabolites in blood and brain extracellular fluid after i.v. heroin administration to freely moving rats

(2013) A Gottås et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Stability of Morphine, Codeine, and 6-Acetylmorphine in Blood at Different Sampling and Storage Conditions

(2013) Ioannis Papoutsis et al.   JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES

The effect of the postmortem interval on the redistribution of drugs: a comparison of mortuary admission and autopsy blood specimens

(2012) Dimitri Gerostamoulos et al.   Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology

Management of Opioid Analgesic Overdose

(2012) Edward W. Boyer   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Concentrations of free-morphine in peripheral blood after recent use of heroin in overdose deaths and in apprehended drivers

(2011) A.W. Jones et al.   FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

Morphine to codeine concentration ratio in blood and urine as a marker of illicit heroin use in forensic autopsy samples

(2011) Svetlana V. Konstantinova et al.   FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

Concentration ratios of free-morphine to free-codeine in femoral blood in heroin-related poisoning deaths

(2011) A Wayne Jones et al.   Legal Medicine

Prehospital treatment of opioid overdose in Copenhagen—Is it safe to discharge on-scene?

(2011) S.S. Rudolph et al.   RESUSCITATION

Mortality among regular or dependent users of heroin and other opioids: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies

(2010) Louisa Degenhardt et al.   ADDICTION

Fentanyl in postmortem forensic toxicology

(2010) Robert B. Palmer   CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY

Rates and correlates of mortality amongst heroin users: Findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS), 2001–2009

(2010) Shane Darke et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Incidence, Reversal, and Prevention of Opioid-induced Respiratory Depression

(2009) Albert Dahan et al.   ANESTHESIOLOGY

Fentanyl epidemic in Chicago, Illinois and surrounding Cook County

(2009) Heather Schumann et al.   CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY

The comparative toxicology and major organ pathology of fatal methadone and heroin toxicity cases

(2009) Shane Darke et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE