Many public health experts have issued warnings in recent months that mental health consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak and social distancing measures required to contain the pandemic will be quite severe in the United States. “In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears likely that there will be substantial increases in anxiety and depression,…
For years, the national focus has been on the opioid epidemic—the escalating addiction and overdose death crisis driven by prescription painkillers, heroin, and illicit fentanyl. Meanwhile, methamphetamine has made a dramatic comeback. In December, the Salt Lake Tribune reported, “the number of methamphetamine-related fatal overdoses in Utah more than doubled in the past five years…
“Poisonings are the leading cause of unintentional injury and death in the United States. The death rate from unintentional poisoning, particularly drug overdose involving opioids, has continually increased over the past 22 decades,” wrote Mollie Cummins, Guilherme Del Fiol, et al. in a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA),…
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