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Mashup Score: 0New Antibiotic Prescribing Measure Key to Curbing Inappropriate Use - 13 hour(s) ago
Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory conditions such as bronchitis and the common cold contributes not only to the development of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, but also causes potential harm to patients because of an increased risk of adverse drug events. In addition, it often results in unnecessary health care spending.
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Mashup Score: 1Black Adolescent Suicide Rate Reveals Urgent Need to Address Mental Health Care Barriers - 2 day(s) ago
New federal data shows that the suicide rate among Black youth ages 10 to 19 surpassed that of their White peers for the first time in 2022, increasing 54% since 2018, compared to a 17% decrease for White youth. In fact, the suicide rate among Black adolescents is increasing faster than other racial and ethnic groups.
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Veterans are one of the highest risk populations for suicide in the U.S. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the suicide rate among veterans is almost 60% greater than it is for nonveterans. Veterans also have elevated rates of contact with the criminal justice system—which may range from arrest to sentencing to incarceration—and recent research suggests that this involvement can further exacerbate suicide risk.
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Only three months into its existence, new teams created to respond to emergencies involving mental health crises in Galveston, Texas, are showing promising results. Officially launched on March 13, the teams—called Compassionate Open Access to Services and Treatment (COAST)—are composed of a Galveston Fire Department paramedic, a Galveston police officer specifically trained to respond to mental health emergencies, and a licensed clinician from the Gulf Coast Center, a community organization that provides services for people with mental health and substance use needs.
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Mashup Score: 0Improved Naloxone Access Can Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths - 3 day(s) ago
The opioid overdose crisis has taken approximately 450,000 lives since 1999 and may be worsening because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Laws that increase access to naloxone are associated with a decrease in opioid overdose deaths in the jurisdictions where they are enacted.
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Mashup Score: 6Meeting the Opioid Crisis–Now What? - 3 day(s) ago
America’s opioid crisis spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic. Economic disruption, social isolation, and despair all helped drive fatal overdoses to one record number after another from 2020 to 2022.
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Mashup Score: 1Pediatric Health Care Teams Can Help Prevent Youth Suicide - 4 day(s) ago
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for young people ages 10 to 24. In 2021, the suicide rate for ages 20 to 24 was 19.4 deaths per 100,000, and the rate for 10- to 14-year-olds was 2.9 deaths per 100,000. In 2021, more than 7,000 young people died by suicide, accounting for 15% of all suicides in the United States that year.
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Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory conditions such as bronchitis and the common cold contributes not only to the development of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, but also causes potential harm to patients because of an increased risk of adverse drug events. In addition, it often results in unnecessary health care spending.
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President Joe Biden reflected in his State of the Union in March on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it had wreaked havoc on people’s day-to-day lives, spurring “a mental health crisis of isolation and loneliness.” Data supports this: As the pandemic unfolded, one 2021 study found that about 4 in 10 adults reported symptoms of anxiety or depression, four times pre-pandemic levels.
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More than a million people in America’s prisons and jails have behavioral health conditions. Many of them probably never needed to be there. This nation incarcerates more people than any other country on the globe, with somewhere between 6 million and 6.5 million under correctional supervision, including prisons, jails, parole, and probation. Exact estimates vary slightly, but we in the field agree that about 16% of this population has some form of significant mental illness.
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Unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory infections (like the common cold) harm patients and fuel resistance, not to mention avoidable health care spending. A new tool helps doctors prescribe more wisely. @NCQA https://t.co/nQyjrtPp69