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Mashup Score: 5The nation’s overdose epidemic is growing in complexity - 3 month(s) ago
Over 107,000 Americans died of a drug-related overdose last year, but payers have yet to step up to boost access to lifesaving treatment.
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Mashup Score: 7Summary - AMA Advocacy Insights webinar series: Strategies to address the nation’s worsening drug overdose and death epidemic - 4 month(s) ago
The 2023 AMA Overdose Epidemic Report finds that – despite positive actions from physicians, growth in harm reduction services, and policy advancements – the nation’s drug overdose and death epidemic is deadlier than ever. The annual report details many of the reasons the epidemic persists, largely due to illicitly manufactured fentanyl and the continued lack of meaningful implementation and…
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Mashup Score: 14Presentations and Outcomes of Adults With Overdose-Related Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - 5 month(s) ago
This cohort study evaluates survival and outcomes of adult patients with drug overdose–related out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) compared with patients with OHCA unrelated to overdose.
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Mashup Score: 0NYC Health Dept. wants everybody to carry Narcan | Fox News Video - 6 month(s) ago
FOX News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel tells ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ that the Health Commissioner urging residents to carry Narcan does not get to the ‘heart of the problem’ of fentanyl overdoses.
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Mashup Score: 71stats - 7 month(s) ago
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. It is a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the U.S. 1 There are two types of fentanyl: pharmaceutical fentanyl and illegally made fentanyl. Both are considered synthetic opioids. Pharmaceutical fentanyl is prescribed by doctors to treat severe pain, especially after surgery and for advanced-stage cancer. Howe ver, most recent cases of fentanyl-related overdose are linked to
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Mashup Score: 1Evolving trends in drug overdose mortality in the USA from 2000 to 2020: an age-period-cohort analysis - 8 month(s) ago
The burden of drug overdose mortality has shifted to younger Americans, and a new generation of Americans are at significantly higher and rapidly increasing risk of overdose death. Urgent action is needed to prevent an entire generation of young people being consigned to decades of preventable mortality.
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Evolving trends in drug #overdose mortality in the USA from 2000 to 2020 The burden of drug overdose mortality has shifted to younger Americans, and a new generation of Americans are at significantly higher and rapidly increasing risk of overdose death https://t.co/WqEiwFYY4n https://t.co/jOuxUbj94F
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Mashup Score: 0Some Health Workers See Double the Risk for Fatal Drug Overdoses - 8 month(s) ago
Pre-pandemic study finds that RNs and others faced elevated risks
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Mashup Score: 60Frequently Asked Questions about Naloxone - 9 month(s) ago
Naloxone FAQ
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Mashup Score: 1Boosting treatment for incarcerated pregnant patients with SUDs - 9 month(s) ago
Pregnant people with a substance use disorder have the same right to treatment as any other person with an SUD. Learn more.
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Mashup Score: 18Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyl–Involved Overdose... - 9 month(s) ago
This report describes increases in illicitly manufactured fentanyl-involved overdose deaths with the nonopioid sedative xylazine detected.
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Over 107,000 Americans died of a drug-related #overdose last year, but payers have yet to step up to boost access to lifesaving treatment. https://t.co/WryEGk8HXt