A Qualitative Process Evaluation and Quality Improvement of a State Drug Overdose Reporting System Data Collection Approach.

Tennessee registered the second-highest drug overdose mortality rate of any state in 2022; such deaths have grown by 90% from 2019 to 2022. Tennessee has participated in the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) since 2018. An abstraction team synthesizes data for SUDORS from death certificates, autopsies, and other sources.

Diphenhydramine-involved Fatal and Nonfatal Drug Overdoses in Tennessee, 2019-2022.

Background: Diphenhydramine (DPH), known as the brand name Benadryl, is an over-the-counter medication associated with accidental ingestion leading to nonfatal overdoses. Additionally, DPH has been used in tandem with illicit substances leading to fatal drug overdoses.

Objective: In response to DPH being seized with illicit drugs as an adulterant, as well as its growing intentional misuse, we sought to explore its recent involvement in fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses in the state of Tennessee.

Why should I switch on my camera? Developing the cognitive skills of compassionate communications for online group/teamwork management.

Introduction: Associated with learning and social isolation from each other during the pandemic-driven transition to online platforms in Higher Education (HE), many students were, and remain, reluctant to turn on their video cameras to be present with each other during their online meetings.Using the Compassionate Mind Foundation's definition of compassion, not as an emotion, but as a psychobiological motivation to take wise action to help when self or others struggle, this comparative study examined (a) the deployment by students during online, task-focused group/team meetings, of taught verbal and non-verbal communication strategies that were explicitly compassionate and (b) the effects of these strategies on each other's social and learning experiences in these meetings, compared to when they did not use them.

Methods: Twenty-four STEM students from a sample of five Sri Lankan universities, were mixed, then divided into six groups of four students per group.

Genetic features of Sri Lankan elephant, Elephas maximus maximus Linnaeus revealed by high throughput sequencing of mitogenome and ddRAD-seq.

Elephas maximus maximus Linnaeus, the Sri Lankan subspecies is the largest and the darkest among Asian elephants. Patches of depigmented areas with no skin color on the ears, face, trunk, and belly morphologically differentiate it from the others. The elephant population in Sri Lanka is now limited to smaller areas and protected under Sri Lankan law.