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Hospitals Could Do More for Survivors of Opioid Overdoses, Study Suggests

September 6, 2017 by ATForum

“To get a sense of how severe the opioid crisis is in the U.S., you can look at the number of fatal overdoses — more than 33,000 in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means, on average, 91 people are dying after overdosing on opioids each day. And for every fatal overdose, there are believed to be roughly 30 nonfatal overdoses.

Clinicians and researchers trying to get a handle on the epidemic look at those nonfatal experiences as opportunities to jump in and figure out whether there is overprescribing going on or whether the patient needs help getting treatment for an addiction. But a paper published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests such interventions don’t happen often enough.

“This is a time when people are vulnerable, potentially frightened by this event that’s just occurred and amenable to advice, referral and treatment recommendations,” says Julie Donohue, associate professor of health policy and management at the University of Pittsburgh and senior author of the paper. “It’s safe to characterize it as a missed opportunity for the health system to respond.”

Read more at: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/22/545115225/hospitals-could-do-more-for-survivors-of-opioid-overdoses-study-suggests

Source: NPR.org – August 22, 2017

Filed Under: 2017, News Updates

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