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International Overdose Awareness Day - 31st August 2021

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 Taken from https://www.healthline.com/health/drug-overdose - “A drug overdose is taking too much of a substance, whether it’s prescription, over-the-counter, legal, or illegal. Drug overdoses may be accidental or intentional”.

International Overdose Awareness Day is the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember without stigma those who have died and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind. The campaign raises awareness of overdose, which is one of the world’s worst public health crises, and stimulates action and discussion about evidence-based overdose prevention and drug policy. It is a time to remember and a time to act.

For more information surrounding substance misuse and the effects of overdoses, please visit the International Overdose Awareness Day and NHS websites:

https://www.overdoseday.com/

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/drug-addiction-getting-help/

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/poisoning/

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who suffer from or are affected by the effects of substance misuse and overdoses, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS:

JOURNALS:

  • Journal of Addiction / Hindawi Publishing Corporation. [Open access ejournal, available through Hindawi website]
  • Substance Use and Misuse / New York, NY : Informa Healthcare. [Available as Keele ejournal 2001 – 2021]
  • Journal of substance misuse for nursing, health and social care / Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. [Available in print at the Royal Stoke Health Library 1996 – 1998].
  • Addiction / Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Carfax Pub. Co. [Available in print from Royal Stoke Health Library 1994 – 2006 and Keele ejournals 1975 onwards].
  • American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse / Philadelphia : Taylor & Francis [Available as NHS ejournal 1993 – 2021 and Keele ejournal 1993 – 2021].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

  • Imam M. Xierali, Philip G. Day, Kurt C. Kleinschmidt, Chance Strenth, F. David Schneider and Neelima J. Kale; “Emergency department presentation of opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder”, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2021 Vol. 127 Article 108343. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Voce, Alexandra; Calabria, Bianca et al; “A Systematic Review of the Symptom Profile and Course of Methamphetamine-Associated Psychosis”, Substance Use & Misuse, 2019, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p549-559. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Seyyed Ali Moezi Bady, Maryam Soltani etal; “Surveying the Effect of Opioid Abuse on the Extent of Coronary Artery Diseases in Diabetic Patients”, Journal of Addiction, Volume 2020, Article ID 8619805. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Segel, Joel E ; Winkelman, Tyler N.A, “Persistence and Pervasiveness: Early Wave Opioid Overdose Death Rates Associated With Subsequent Overdose Death Rates”, Public health reports 2021, Vol.136 Issue 2 p.212-218. . [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Priddis DeAnne; Asbury, Mary Beth; “Assessing Grief in Family Caregivers of Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder or Substance Use Disorder using the Marwit-Meuser Caregiver Grief Inventory Short Form (MM-CGI-SF)”, Substance Abuse : Research and Treatment Vol. 14 p.1–6. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Chiew, Angela L ; Wright, Daniel F. B et al; “‘Massive’ metformin overdose”, British journal of clinical pharmacology 2018, Vol.84 Issue 12 p.2923-2927. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Jones AL, Rankin JA, Then KL., “Drug Overdose, Loss of Consciousness, and Compartment Syndrome: A Life-Threatening Combination”, Journal of Emergency Nursing, 2020 May; Vol. 46, No.3, pp.294-301. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2020.02.001. PMID: 32389203.
  • Marks DJB, Dargan PI, Archer JRH, Davies CL, Dines AM, Wood DM, Greene SL., “Outcomes from massive paracetamol overdose: a retrospective observational study.”, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology,. 2017, June, Vol.83, No.6, pp.1263-1272. doi: 10.1111/bcp.13214. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

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