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When naloxone alone isn't enough: Deaths in year after ED OD visits
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32412
Subject(s) - (+) naloxone , emergency department , opioid overdose , buprenorphine , medicine , referral , emergency medicine , medical emergency , opioid , anesthesia , family medicine , psychiatry , receptor
When patients are treated for nonfatal opioid overdose in the emergency department (ED) and discharged, they have a high risk of death — 67% of the time from another overdose within the next year, and especially within the next two days — new research has found. Being offered medication such as buprenorphine, counseling and referral to treatment by the ED before discharge could reduce that risk, the researchers concluded.