Predicted data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020—making it the largest increase in overdose deaths ever recorded. Of those deaths, 69,769, or 75%, involved an opioid. Opioid-involved...
After witnessing skyrocketing rates of overdoses, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency in 2017. Since then, and through 2019, opioid overdose deaths have decreased, according to a 2020 CDC report. But...
THE BOTTOM LINE | Medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is an important first step to treat individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) who have been hospitalized due to injection drug use-associated infective endocarditis — but physicians...
Hospitals are on the front lines of the opioid epidemic. Nearly 500,000 people with an opioid use disorder (OUD) are discharged from the hospital each year. Rates of opioid-related emergency department visits and inpatient stays have risen dramatically, as have rates...
Every day, more than a hundred Americans die from opioid overdoses — and every day, we miss critical opportunities to save the victims of tomorrow. For years, we’ve approached this epidemic by focusing on prescription painkillers. As a society, we’ve tightened...