Publications | NDEWS l National Drug Early Warning System l University of Maryland

DOTS Issue 2 - First DOTS Study Finds Fentanyl and Polydrug Use in Patients Seen During Opioid Overdose Spike in Baltimore – Higher Doses of Naloxone May Be Needed dotsbulletin-issue2-june2018-baltimore-midtown-final_0.pdf160.4 KB
DOTS Issue 3 - Methamphetamine, Opioids, Cocaine, and Multiple Drugs Were Most Common in Specimens from Seattle/King County Area Decedents dotsbulletin-issue3-june2018-kingcomedicalex-final_0.pdf190.22 KB
DOTS Issue 4 - Drug-Positive Urine Specimens from Uninsured or Publicly Insured Residents of Montgomery County, Maryland, Contain No Fentanyl and Few Synthetic Cannabinoids but Do Contain Multiple Drugs dotsbulletin-issue4-june2018-accesstobh-final_0.pdf128.54 KB
Abbate, V., Schwenk, M., Presley, B.C., & Uchiyama, N. (2018). The ongoing challenge of novel psychoactive drugs of abuse: Part I. Synthetic cannabinoids (IUPAC Technical Report). Pure and Applied Chemistry, published online ahead of print.
Abrams, D.B., Glasser, A.M., Pearson, J.L., Villanti, A.C., Collins, L.K., & Niaura, R.S. (2018). Harm Minimization and Tobacco Control: Reframing Societal Views of Nicotine Use to Rapidly Save Lives. Annual Review of Public Health, 39: 193-213.
Ahmad, F.B., Rossen, L.M., Spencer, M.R., Warner, M., & Sutton, P. (2018). Provisional drug overdose death counts. National Center for Health Statistics.
Artigiani, E.E., Hsu, M.H., McCandlish, D., and Wish, E.D. (2018). Methamphetamine: A Regional Drug Crisis. College Park, MD: National Drug Early Warning System. ndews-scs-methamphetamine-report-september-2018-final.pdf1.16 MB
Buchanich, J.M., Balmert, L.C., Williams, K.E., & Burke, D.S. (2018). The Effect of Incomplete Death Certificates on Estimates of Unintentional Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2015. Public Health Reports, XX(X), 1-9.
Cramer, M. (2018). State’s highest court rules that judges may force defendants with drug addiction to stay sober. Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts.
Drug Enforcement Administration. (2018). Slang Terms and Code Words: A Reference for Law Enforcement Personnel. Intelligence Report. dea-drug-slang-terms-and-code-words-july2018.pdf1.35 MB
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2018). 2018 European Drug Report.
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2018). Fentanils and synthetic cannabinoids: driving greater complexity into the drug situation — an update from the EU Early Warning System.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement. (2018). Drugs Identified in Deceased Persons by Florida Medical Examiners - 2017 Interim Report.
Governmnent Accountability Office. (2018). Illicit Opioids: Office of National Drug Control Policy and Other Agencies Need to Better Assess Strategic Efforts. Testimony Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives.
Green, T.C., Clarke, J., & Brinkley-Rubinstein, L. (2018). Postincarceration Fatal Overdoses After Implementing Medications for Addiction Treatment in a Statewide Correctional System. JAMA Psychiatry, 75(4): 405-7.
Janakiram, C., Chalmers, N.I., Fontelo, P., Huser, V., Lopez-Mitnick, G., Iafolla, T.J., Brow, A.R., Dye, B.A. (2018). Sex and race or ethnicity disparities in opioid prescriptions for dental diagnoses among patients receiving Medicaid. Journal of the American Dental Association, 149(4): 246-55.
Jones C.M., Einstein E.B., & Compton W.M. (2018). Changes in Synthetic Opioid Involvement in Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2010-2016. JAMA., 319(17):1819–21.
Kann, L., McManus, T., Harris, W.A., et al. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2017. MMWR Surveillance Summaries, 67(No. SS-8):1–114
Krotulski, A.J., Mohr, A.L.A, Friscia, M., & Logan, B.K. (2018). Monitoring Changes in the Novel Psychoactive Substance (NPS) Market through Enhanced Identification of Emerging Drugs and their Metabolites in Biological Samples. National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
Lamy, F., Daniulaityte, R., Sheth, A., et al. (2018). eDark Trends update: New synthetic opioids, MPF-47,700, U-4TDP, U-48,800, U-49,900, and U-50,488 identified on two cryptomarkets. Wright State University. edarktrends_information_letter_1.pdf587.56 KB
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2018). Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. (2018). Childhood Poisoning: Safeguarding Young Children from Addictive Substances.
National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS). (2018). NFLIS 2017 Mid-Year Report. US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration.
O'Donnell, J., Gladden, R.M., Mattson, C.L., & Kariisa, M. (2018). Overdose Deaths with Carfentanil and Other Fentanyl Analogs Detected — 10 States, July 2016–June 2017. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 67(27): 767-8.
Opioid addiction is plateauing. But the crisis isn’t over; Dylan Scott, VOX.COM