2024 Naloxone Overdose 
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
Date: September 18, 2024 Reference: Dillon et al. Naloxone and Patient Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in California. August 20, 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Root is an emergency medicine and emergency medicine service (EMS) physician at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. JAMA Network Open.
ESO
DECEMBER 18, 2024
After reviewing over 12 million EMS incidents that took place in 2023 , the 2024 ESO EMS Index highlights two critical areas that demand attention: Early CPR and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). One of the biggest findings in the 2024 ESO EMS Index regarding bystander CPR rates is that they vary by background. Want to learn more?
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Peter Canning
MAY 22, 2024
Drug overdose deaths are down 3.1% 107,543 people died of drug overdoses in 2023 down from 111,029 in 2022. Here in Connecticut, drug overdose deaths have been decreasing for the last two years (down 14% in 2023 from the 2021 high). Harm reduction and the availability of naloxone. Why are deaths dropping?
Peter Canning
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives, blared the headline from NPR yesterday. For the 12-month period April 2023 to April 2024, deaths fell nationally for the first time, declining by 10%. In May, I speculated on some of the reasons for declining rates : Harm reduction and the availability of naloxone.
Peter Canning
DECEMBER 14, 2024
” The Drug Enforcement Administration in their 2024 Drug Threat Assessment (May 2024) provided this official analysis: The ban is probably a public relations stunt, however, or an attempt by the cartels to consolidate production among a smaller number of trusted manufacturers and punish others.
Peter Canning
MARCH 12, 2025
Fatal Overdoses continue to show a decline both nationally (27.5% from our rolling 12-month high of November 2021), according to just released data from the CDC which reflects their data through the end of October 2024. Based on Data through October 2024. Keep getting the naloxone out there. What should we be doing?
Peter Canning
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
The latest CDC data released today show US overdose deaths are down 16.74% from the rolling 12-month high of 111,802 in August of 2023 to June 2024 count of 93,087(the latest provisional data available). Harm reduction workers in Hartford Connecticut, making Naloxone kits. We will win this war.
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