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EDITORIAL article

Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Addictive Disorders
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1443304
This article is part of the Research Topic Discovery, development and implementation of improved options for treating opioid overdose in the synthetic opioid era View all 5 articles

Editorial: Discovery, development and implementation of improved options for treating opioid overdose in the synthetic opioid era

Provisionally accepted
Christian Heidbreder Christian Heidbreder 1*Mark K. Greenwald Mark K. Greenwald 2Bernard Le Foll Bernard Le Foll 3Phil Skolnick Phil Skolnick 1
  • 1 Indivior, Inc., Richmond, United States
  • 2 Department of Pharmacy Practice, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
  • 3 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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    Keywords: Opioid overdose crisis, synthetic opioids, Fentanyl, Carfentanil, Naloxone, Nalmefene, Cardiac arrest and brain injuries, Respiratory depression (RD)

    Received: 03 Jun 2024; Accepted: 05 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Heidbreder, Greenwald, Le Foll and Skolnick. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Christian Heidbreder, Indivior, Inc., Richmond, United States

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