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Stimulants increasingly involved in opioid OD deaths in teens and young adults
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30545
Subject(s) - polysubstance dependence , medicine , opioid , opioid overdose , psychiatry , young adult , substance abuse , gerontology , (+) naloxone , receptor
The first study characterizing polysubstance involvement in opioid overdose deaths among youth has found that in 2018, for the first time, these OD deaths were more prevalent than those involving opioids alone. And, surprisingly, it was not other central nervous system depressants (e.g., alcohol, benzodiazepines) that were most commonly involved. It was stimulants.