We're closing out 2024 with a highlight of this year's NDEWS publications

Bruzelius, E., Palamar, J. J., Fitzgerald, N. D., Cottler, L. B., Carr, T. C., & Martins, S. S. (2024). Law enforcement fentanyl seizures and overdose mortality in US counties, 2013-2020. Drug and alcohol dependence, 262, 111400. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111400

Fitzgerald, N. D., Cottler, L. B., & Palamar, J. J. (2024). Public health surveillance of new psychoactive substances: recent developments. Current opinion in psychiatry, 37(4), 270–276. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000938

Fitzgerald ND, Palamar JJ. (2024). Increases in the use of drug testing kits among nightclub and festival attendees in New York City who use ecstasy, 2017–2022. Drug Alcohol Rev. 43(4): 975–983. doi: 10.1111/dar.13829

McCabe, A. J., Won, N. Y., & Cottler, L. B. (2024). The preponderance of opioid overdoses among middle-aged individuals in the US: Analysis of 911 dispatch data – Q1 2018 to Q3 2023. The American journal of emergency medicine, 86, 94–97. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2024.09.057

Palamar J. J. (2024). Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyl Use Among Individuals in the U.S., 2022. American journal of preventive medicine, 67(2), 285–290. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2024.03.014

Palamar, J. J., Fitzgerald, N., Carr, T. H., Cottler, L. B., & Ciccarone, D. (2024). National and regional trends in fentanyl seizures in the United States, 2017-2023. The International journal on drug policy, 104417. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104417

Palamar, J. J., Fitzgerald, N. D., Carr, T. H., Rutherford, C., Keyes, K. M., & Cottler, L. B. (2024). National and regional trends in seizures of shrooms (psilocybin) in the United States, 2017-2022. Drug and alcohol dependence, 258, 111086. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111086

Palamar, J. J., Fitzgerald, N. D., Goldberger, B. A., & Cottler, L. B. (2024). Monitoring illicit pentobarbital availability in the United States: A National Drug Early Warning System briefing. Drug and alcohol dependence, 263, 112402. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.112402

Palamar, J. J., & Krotulski, A. J. (2024). Medetomidine Infiltrates the US Illicit Opioid Market. JAMA, 332(17), 1425–1426. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.15992

Won, N. Y., Gurka, K. K., & Cottler, L. B. (2024). Five-year trend analysis of drug use among individuals 16 years of age and older injured in non-fatal motor vehicle crashes in the US. Traffic injury prevention, 1–8. doi: 10.1080/15389588.2024.2405038

Won, N. Y., Jabot, B., Wang, A., Palamar, J. J., & Cottler, L. B. (2024). Willingness to provide a hair sample for drug testing: results from an anonymous multi-city intercept survey. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 50(2), 261–268. doi: 10.1080/00952990.2024.2309654

Won, N. Y., McCabe, A. J., & Cottler, L. B. (2024). Alcohol-related non-fatal motor vehicle crash injury in the US from 2019 to 2022. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 50(2), 252–260. https://doi.org/10.1080/00952990.2024.2309336 doi: 10.1080/00952990.2024.2309336

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• Brave App
• Test strips for drug checking

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The Weekly Briefing is a newsletter published each week by the National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) Coordinating Center, which is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (U01DA051126) to the University of Florida (PI: Cottler, Co-Is: Goldberger, Nixon, Striley), New York University (Deputy Director: Palamar), and Florida Atlantic University (Co-I: Barenholtz). Any item may be reproduced provided the source is acknowledged.