Glenna J. Urquhart

Sep 21, 2023 | harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com | Kristin Schneider |Glenna J. Urquhart |Saba Rouhani |Sean Allen |Miles Morris |Susan Sherman

We used data from the Peer harm Reduction Of Maryland Outreach Tiered Evaluation (PROMOTE), a mixed-methods, cross-sectional study of people who use drugs (PWUD) in Baltimore City and Anne Arundel County (AAC), Maryland. Adjacent to Baltimore City, AAC has the third-most unintentional overdose deaths in the state and is largely constituted of suburban (more sprawling communities with limited access to public transportation) communities with limited harm reduction service coverage [24].

Sep 17, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Glenna J. Urquhart |Saba Rouhani |Sean Allen |Zofia Kozak

INTRODUCTION Poisoning deaths are the leading cause of unintentional death in the United States, with the highest number of fatal overdoses ever recorded (100,306) occurring in the 12-month period ending in April 2021, constituting a 28.5% increase from the same period the year before.1 Most of these fatalities involve opioids,2 and recent studies show mortality rates for opioid overdoses involving benzodiazepines (BZDs) increased 10-fold from 1999 to 2017.3 In addition to being used for...