“Suicides and drug overdoses kill American adults at twice the rate today as they did just 17 years ago, and opioids are a key contributor to that rise, according to a new review and analysis by a University of Michigan team.
Reversing this deadly double trend will take investment in programs that have been proven to prevent and treat opioid addiction, the authors of the study say in a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
They also call for more research to identify who’s most at risk of deliberate or unintentional opioid overdoses, to make sure these individuals get better pain management, mental health care and medication-assisted therapy for opioid addiction.”
Read more at: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/mm-u-ofa010719.php
Source: Eurekalert.org – January 7, 2019
