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The Development of a Patient-Centered Digital Health Care Technology for Young Adults in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Qualitative Study

The Development of a Patient-Centered Digital Health Care Technology for Young Adults in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Qualitative Study

Such an approach promises to increase early treatment retention and thereby improve the quality of care and reduce the risk of overdose death. All participants received the intervention. Future studies will be trials of AWARE and will include control and intervention groups to test the effect of AWARE.

Karen Alexander, Madison Scialanca

JMIR Form Res 2025;9:e67401


Overdose-Related Trends in Online Search Behavior in Japan: Analysis Using Infodemiological Methods

Overdose-Related Trends in Online Search Behavior in Japan: Analysis Using Infodemiological Methods

Overdose incidents involving over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription drugs have increased worldwide with the COVID-19 pandemic [1]. In Japan, overmedication of OTC drugs has become a major issue. With digital platforms' essential role in health information access, increase in drug overdose information has raised concerns [2,3]. Although infodemiological research has examined drug-related search behaviors [3], it does not capture the postpandemic increase in overdoses.

Miyu Eguchi, Soichiro Ushio, Satoru Esumi, Yukiomi Eguchi, Toshinobu Hayashi, Taisuke Kitamura, Kenichi Mishima, Takashi Egawa

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e73794


Use of a Shoulder-Mounted Wearable Sensor Prototype Designed to Detect Opioid-Related Overdose: A Qualitative User Experience Study

Use of a Shoulder-Mounted Wearable Sensor Prototype Designed to Detect Opioid-Related Overdose: A Qualitative User Experience Study

Emergency responders have multiple ways to address overdose, but the primary pharmacological treatment is naloxone [4]. Despite its lifesaving potential, naloxone’s effectiveness is critically hampered by delays in overdose recognition and response [5]. Overdose events often go unrecognized when bystanders are present, and more than half of overdoses occur when someone uses drugs alone and there is no one there to administer naloxone [2,6,7].

Alexis M Roth, Ally K D'Angelo, David Gordon, Benjamin Cocchiaro, Anush Lingamoorthy, Rose Laurano, Matthew Salzman, Jacob S Brenner, Cameron Baston

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e73566


Identification of Behavioral, Clinical, and Psychological Antecedents of Acute Stimulant Poisoning: Development and Implementation of a Mixed Methods Psychological Autopsy Study

Identification of Behavioral, Clinical, and Psychological Antecedents of Acute Stimulant Poisoning: Development and Implementation of a Mixed Methods Psychological Autopsy Study

Fatal opioid overdose has a well-defined mechanism—respiratory depression eventually leading to cardiac arrest and death—and decades of research exploring the nature of and antecedents to death. However, this framework and associated research are absent for fatal stimulant poisoning, leading investigators and public health providers to assume stimulant poisoning deaths are similar to opioid overdose deaths and a result of an “overdose.”

Marley Antolin Muñiz, Vanessa M McMahan, Xochitl Luna Marti, Sarah Brennan, Sophia Tavasieff, Luke N Rodda, James Knoll, Phillip O Coffin

JMIR Form Res 2025;9:e64873


Association of Drugs for Sale on the Internet and Official Health Indicators: Darknet Parsing and Correlational Study

Association of Drugs for Sale on the Internet and Official Health Indicators: Darknet Parsing and Correlational Study

The most significant correlations were observed for the variable “grams opiates” because the official statistics primarily include opiate use and overdose. As a result, the highest correlation between this variable, which can be interpreted as “grams of opiates in the region,” is strongly associated with the rates of deaths from drug overdose (r=.41; P=.003) and the number of HIV-positive people infected by drug use (r=.51; P=.002).

Sergey Soshnikov, Svetlana Bekker, Bulat Idrisov, Vasiliy Vlassov

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e56006


Peer Intervention to Link Overdose Survivors to Treatment (PILOT): Protocol for a Multisite, Randomized Controlled Trial Conducted Within the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network

Peer Intervention to Link Overdose Survivors to Treatment (PILOT): Protocol for a Multisite, Randomized Controlled Trial Conducted Within the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network

An increase in overdose deaths globally [1] and in the United States have caused a decrease in average life expectancy [2]. One of the greatest risk factors for a fatal overdose is experiencing a nonfatal overdose involving opioids (NFOO) in the previous year. Indeed, 6% to 10% of individuals who experience an NFOO die in the following year [3-5]. Survivors of NFOOs most commonly die of another overdose (67%) [3], with the highest risk period being the month following NFOO [5].

Carrie Papa, Erin A McClure, Jenna McCauley, Louise Haynes, Timothy Matheson, Richard Jones, Lindsey Jennings, Tricia Lawdahl, Ralph Ward, Kathleen Brady, Kelly Stephenson Barth

JMIR Res Protoc 2024;13:e60277


Overdose Detection Among High-Risk Opioid Users Via a Wearable Chest Sensor in a Supervised Injecting Facility: Protocol for an Observational Study

Overdose Detection Among High-Risk Opioid Users Via a Wearable Chest Sensor in a Supervised Injecting Facility: Protocol for an Observational Study

Worldwide, more than 27 million people have an opioid use disorder and more than 150,000 people die each year from opioid overdose [1,2]. In the United States, in 2022-2023, there are estimated to be more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths [3]. Naloxone is an opioid antagonist and an antidote to opioid overdose.

Basak Tas, Will Lawn, Marianne Jauncey, Mark Bartlett, Paul Dietze, Daniel O'Keefe, Nico Clark, Bruce Henderson, Catriona Cowan, Osian Meredith, John Strang

JMIR Res Protoc 2024;13:e57367


Barriers to, and Facilitators of, Checking Drugs for Adulterants in the Era of Fentanyl and Xylazine: Qualitative Study

Barriers to, and Facilitators of, Checking Drugs for Adulterants in the Era of Fentanyl and Xylazine: Qualitative Study

The United States has set new annual records for overdose deaths almost every year for more than 20 years [1]. Much of this increase is due to a rapidly changing and unpredictable drug supply that can pose myriad health risks [2]. Nationally, more than 107,000 people died from overdose in the 12-month period ending in March 2022 [3], and more people in New York City died from opioid overdose than ever before [4,5].

Ian David Aronson, Mary-Andrée Ardouin-Guerrier, Juan Esteban Baus, Alex S Bennett

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e56755


The Association of Broadband Internet Use With Drug Overdose Mortality Rates in the United States: Cross-Sectional Analysis

The Association of Broadband Internet Use With Drug Overdose Mortality Rates in the United States: Cross-Sectional Analysis

Opioids, either obtained illicitly or as a prescription, accounted for approximately 75% of the total drug overdose deaths in 2020 [1,2]. Recent numbers suggest an acceleration of both drug and opioid overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the United States experiencing the largest number of drug overdose deaths during this period (93,300 deaths) compared to that reported in any given year within the last 2 decades.

Ioannis Karakis, Genti Kostandini, Konstantinos Tsamakis, Velma Zahirovic-Herbert

Online J Public Health Inform 2024;16:e52686