NIH R01 · 2025
Behavioral Safety and Fentanyl Education: BSAFE
Fentanyl overdose mortality has skyrocketed over the past decade. Most of these deaths also involve stimulants (cocaine or methamphetamine). Multiple investigations have demonstrated a substantial contribution of unintentional fentanyl use (UFU) to medically-attended opioid overdose and opioid overdose mortality. This mostly occurs among people using stimulants (cocaine or methamphetamine). While contamination of drugs contributes to UFU, the mechanism is usually related to how drugs are obtained, prepared, and consumed (e.g., finding a drug that is assumed to be a stimulant, letting someone else prepare a drug for use, or using a pipe that was used by someone else). This mechanism of risk…
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