Chris Delcher, PhD
@cdelcher.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Kentucky, epidemiologist, drug surveillance and policy
Disaster averted? Signs of things to come? My latest on what looks like another carfentanil (fentanyl variant) outbreak
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Another Carfentanil Fatal Outbreak in Florida?
In 2016 and 2017, carfentanil was implicated in the deadliest fatal outbreak involving a fentanyl analog in the United States with 1,190 deaths in Flo…
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July 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Disaster averted? Signs of things to come? My latest on what looks like another carfentanil (fentanyl variant) outbreak
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Today would be a good day to brush off the “find gov data in the supplementary materials” skills
January 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Today would be a good day to brush off the “find gov data in the supplementary materials” skills
We are missing 25% of the naloxone given by EMS in Kentucky
Identification of Naloxone in Emergency Medical Services Data Substantially Improves by Processing Unstructured Patient Care Narratives
Structured data fields, including medication fields involving naloxone, are routinely used to identify opioid overdoses in emergency medical services (EMS) data; between January 2021 and March 2024...
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January 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We are missing 25% of the naloxone given by EMS in Kentucky