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Trends in Injection Opioid Use and Bloodborne Pathogen Related Diseases in New Jersey
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When the opioid epidemic began in the early 1990s, pills such as oxycodone were the primary means of abuse. Beginning in 2010, injection use of, first, heroin and then synthetic opioids dramatically increased, which led the number of overdose deaths… read more -
Using probabilistic matching to improve opioid drug overdose surveillance, New Jersey
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The opioid drug overdose crisis presents serious challenges to state-based public health surveillance programs, not the least of which is uncertainty in the detection of cases in existing data systems. New Jersey historically had slightly higher… read more -
School Daze: Capturing Chemical Exposures in Syndromic Surveillance -- New Jersey 2013
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In early May of 2013, two chemical spills occurred within high schools in Atlantic county. These incidents, occurring within a week of each other, highlighted the need to strengthen statewide syndromic surveillance of illnesses caused by such… read more