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Computational Systems Pharmacology-Target Mapping for Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Overdose.

ACS chemical neuroscience
The United States of America is fighting against one of its worst-ever drug crises. Over 900 people a week die from opioid- or heroin-related overdoses, while millions more suffer from opioid prescription addiction. Recently, drug overdoses caused by...

Machine learning for phenotyping opioid overdose events.

Journal of biomedical informatics
OBJECTIVE: To develop machine learning models for classifying the severity of opioid overdose events from clinical data.

The distribution and redistribution of fentanyl & norfentanyl in post mortem samples.

Forensic science international
This article compares 249 post mortem case reports that were positive for fentanyl/norfentanyl. All the cases were submitted to, and analyzed by, the toxicology department of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This s...

Death by Robots? Automation and Working-Age Mortality in the United States.

Demography
The decline of manufacturing employment is frequently invoked as a key cause of worsening U.S. population health trends, including rising mortality due to "deaths of despair." Increasing automation-the use of industrial robots to perform tasks previo...

Big data and predictive modelling for the opioid crisis: existing research and future potential.

The Lancet. Digital health
A need exists to accurately estimate overdose risk and improve understanding of how to deliver treatments and interventions in people with opioid use disorder in a way that reduces such risk. We consider opportunities for predictive analytics and rou...

A murdered teen, two million tweets and an experiment to fight gun violence.

Nature
Researchers are using AI to decode the language of Chicago gangs. Next they’ll look for opportunities to intervene before online aggression turns deadly.
In the middle of the day on 11 April 2014, a hooded gunman ambushed Gakirah Barnes on the str...

Prescription Opioid Dependence in Western New York: Using Data Analytics to Find an Answer to the Opioid Epidemic.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Opioid dependence and overdose is on the rise. One indicator is the increasing trends of prescription buprenorphine use among patient on chronic pain medication. In addition to the New York State Department of Health's prescription drug monitoring pr...