Brief report: Characterization of marijuana use in us college students by state marijuana legalization status as reported to an online survey.

Background And Objective: US college student marijuana use is the highest since 1980. The objective was to investigate use characteristics among college students.

Methods: The RADARS® System College Survey Program surveyed individuals in a university, technical or online school.

Unintentional Pediatric Exposures to Marijuana in Colorado, 2009-2015.

Importance: As of 2015, almost half of US states allow medical marijuana, and 4 states allow recreational marijuana. To our knowledge, the effect of recreational marijuana on the pediatric population has not been evaluated.

Objective: To compare the incidence of pediatric marijuana exposures evaluated at a children's hospital and regional poison center (RPC) in Colorado before and after recreational marijuana legalization and to compare population rate trends of RPC cases for marijuana exposures with the rest of the United States.

Analysis of the Abuse and Diversion of the Buprenorphine Transdermal Delivery System.

Unlabelled: Prescription opioid abuse and diversion are major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. The buprenorphine transdermal delivery system (BTDS) is indicated for the treatment of moderate to severe chronic pain and provides a continuous dose of 5, 7.5, 10, 15, or 20 μg/h buprenorphine for 7 days.

Diversion and Illicit Sale of Extended Release Tapentadol in the United States.

Objective: Prescription opioid analgesics are commonly prescribed for moderate to severe pain. An unintended consequence of prescribing opioid analgesics is the abuse and diversion of these medications. Tapentadol ER is a recently approved centrally acting analgesic with synergistic mechanisms of action: μ-opioid receptor agonism and inhibition of norepinephrine reuptake.

Assessment of prescription opioid intentional exposures across the rural-urban continuum in the United States using both population and drug availability rates.

Purpose: Prescription opioid abuse and misuse are a serious problem in the U.S. today.

Abuse and diversion of buprenorphine sublingual tablets and film.

Buprenorphine abuse is common worldwide. Rates of abuse and diversion of three sublingual buprenorphine formulations (single ingredient tablets; naloxone combination tablets and film) were compared. Data were obtained from the Researched Abuse, Diversion, and Addiction-Related Surveillance (RADARS) System Poison Center, Drug Diversion, Opioid Treatment (OTP), Survey of Key Informants' Patients (SKIP), and College Survey Programs through December 2012.

Association of unintentional pediatric exposures with decriminalization of marijuana in the United States.

Study Objective: We compare state trends in unintentional pediatric marijuana exposures, as measured by call volume to US poison centers, by state marijuana legislation status.

Methods: A retrospective review of the American Association of Poison Control Centers National Poison Data System was performed from January 1, 2005, to December 31, 2011. States were classified as nonlegal if they have not passed legislation, transitional if they enacted legislation between 2005 and 2011, and decriminalized if laws passed before 2005.

The effect of a statewide smoking ordinance on acute myocardial infarction rates.

Background: Public smoking ordinances may reduce acute myocardial infarction events. Most studies assessed small communities with reported reductions as high as 40%. No reduction or smaller reductions were found in countrywide studies; less is known about the impact of statewide ordinances.

Unintentional pediatric exposures to central alpha-2 agonists reported to the National Poison Data System.

Objective: To investigate national trends in unintentional pediatric exposures to 3 common alpha-2 agonists: clonidine, guanfacine, and tizanidine. Secondary objectives were to describe outcomes, symptoms, treatments, and death.

Study Design: Retrospective chart review from the American Association of Poison Control Centers National Poison Data System from January 2000 to December 2011 for unintentional exposure to clonidine, guanfacine, and tizanidine in children ≤ 12 years of age.