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Stimulant‐related overdoses among young people raise concern
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30703
Subject(s) - stimulant , medicine , drug overdose , heroin , drug , period (music) , psychiatry , medical emergency , poison control , physics , acoustics
Drug overdoses among youth that are related to heroin declined in the period from April 2016 through September 2019, but suspected stimulant‐related overdoses were on the rise during the same period, a retrospective analysis of hospital data has found. The results suggest that substance use prevention efforts should incorporate messaging about the dangers of stimulants, according to the study's authors.